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Nina Totenberg (born
January 14, 1944) is
National Public Radio's legal affairs correspondent. Her reports air regularly on NPR's newsmagazines
All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and
Weekend Edition. She is also a panelist on the syndicated TV political commentary show "Inside Washington."
Background
Totenberg attended Boston University, has more than a dozen honorary degrees and journalism awards, and is the "dean" of the Supreme Court press corps. She has written articles for the
Harvard Law Review, the
New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, the
Christian Science Monitor, and numerous other legal and general circulation publications. She is the daughter of violinist
Roman Totenberg and the widow of the late Sen. Floyd K. Haskell (D-Colo), whom she married in
1979. She remarried in 2000 to Dr. H. David Reines, a trauma surgeon and vice chairman of surgery at
Inova Fairfax Hospital. On their honeymoon, he treated her for severe injuries after she was hit by a boat propeller while swimming.Warren, Larkin,
Good Housekeeping, My husband saved my life!: three heroic men who did much more than love, honor, and cherish., 01-OCT-01. Retrieved Jan. 12, 2007.; and Polson Enterprises, Propeller Accidents. Retrieved Jan. 12, 2007.
Early career
Totenberg began her journalism career working for newspapers and magazines. Her first job was at the
Boston Record American, followed by stints at the
Peabody Times in Massachusetts,
Roll Call in Washington, D.C., the
National Observer (from which she was fired for plagiarism in 1972 Nina Totenberg in Famous Plagiarists.com), and
New Times magazine. In 1975 she joined NPR, where she has worked ever since. In addition, in the 1990s she was a regular contributor to ABC's
Nightline.
Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings
In
1991, Totenberg's report about allegations of sexual harassment lodged by
University of Oklahoma Law Professor
Anita Hill against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas led the
Senate Judiciary Committee to re-open Thomas's US Supreme Court confirmation hearings to consider Hill's charges. For the report and National Public Radio gavel-to-gavel coverage, Totenberg received the prestigious Peabody Award. The same year she also won the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism and the
Joan S. Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based national affairs/public policy reporting (the latter also in part for her coverage of the retirement of Justice
Thurgood Marshall).
Accusations of plagiarism
During Totenberg's coverage of the
Anita Hill hearings,
Wall Street Journal columnist Al Hunt accused Totenberg of plagiarism and, relatedly, for not disclosing the true reason she left the
National Observer newspaper. Hunt reported that in 1972 Totenberg used quotations from members of Congress without attributing them to the publication in which they first appeared (the
Washington Post)].{{cite news |author=Albert R. Hunt
|title=Tales of Ignominy, Beyond Thomas and Hill
|date=October 17, 1991
|publisher=[Wall Street Journal
--> In 1995, Totenberg told the
Columbia Journalism Review, "I have a strong feeling that a young reporter is entitled to one mistake and to have the holy bejeezus scared out of her to never do it again."Trudy Lieberman, "Plagiarize, Plagiarize, Plagiarize...",
Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 1995.
Awards
Among her other awards, Totenberg won the
Columbia University Dupont Award in 1988 for her coverage of the Supreme Court nominations. She has been honored seven times by the American Bar Association for excellence in legal reporting. She also won the first-ever Tony House award presented by the American Judicature Society for a career body of work and was the first radio journalist to be honored by the National Press Foundation as Broadcaster of the Year.
References
External links
- Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution from the Jewish Women's Archive
Nina Totenberg (born January 14,
1944) is
National Public Radio's legal affairs correspondent. Her reports air regularly on NPR's newsmagazines
All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and
Weekend Edition. She is also a panelist on the syndicated TV political commentary show "
Inside Washington."
Background
Totenberg attended
Boston University, has more than a dozen honorary degrees and journalism awards, and is the "dean" of the Supreme Court press corps. She has written articles for the
Harvard Law Review, the
New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, the
Christian Science Monitor, and numerous other legal and general circulation publications. She is the daughter of violinist
Roman Totenberg and the widow of the late Sen. Floyd K. Haskell (D-Colo), whom she married in 1979. She remarried in 2000 to Dr. H. David Reines, a trauma surgeon and vice chairman of surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital. On their honeymoon, he treated her for severe injuries after she was hit by a boat propeller while swimming.Warren, Larkin,
Good Housekeeping, My husband saved my life!: three heroic men who did much more than love, honor, and cherish., 01-OCT-01. Retrieved Jan. 12, 2007.; and Polson Enterprises, Propeller Accidents. Retrieved Jan. 12, 2007.
Early career
Totenberg began her journalism career working for newspapers and magazines. Her first job was at the
Boston Record American, followed by stints at the
Peabody Times in Massachusetts,
Roll Call in Washington, D.C., the
National Observer (from which she was fired for plagiarism in 1972 Nina Totenberg in Famous Plagiarists.com), and
New Times magazine. In 1975 she joined NPR, where she has worked ever since. In addition, in the 1990s she was a regular contributor to ABC's
Nightline.
Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings
In 1991, Totenberg's report about allegations of sexual harassment lodged by University of Oklahoma Law Professor Anita Hill against Supreme Court nominee
Clarence Thomas led the
Senate Judiciary Committee to re-open Thomas's US Supreme Court confirmation hearings to consider Hill's charges. For the report and
National Public Radio gavel-to-gavel coverage, Totenberg received the prestigious Peabody Award. The same year she also won the
George Polk Award for excellence in journalism and the
Joan S. Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based national affairs/public policy reporting (the latter also in part for her coverage of the retirement of Justice Thurgood Marshall).
Accusations of plagiarism
During Totenberg's coverage of the
Anita Hill hearings,
Wall Street Journal columnist
Al Hunt accused Totenberg of plagiarism and, relatedly, for not disclosing the true reason she left the
National Observer newspaper. Hunt reported that in 1972 Totenberg used quotations from members of Congress without attributing them to the publication in which they first appeared (the
Washington Post)].{{cite news |author=Albert R. Hunt
|title=Tales of Ignominy, Beyond Thomas and Hill
|date=October 17, 1991
|publisher=[Wall Street Journal
--> In 1995, Totenberg told the
Columbia Journalism Review, "I have a strong feeling that a young reporter is entitled to one mistake and to have the holy bejeezus scared out of her to never do it again."Trudy Lieberman, "Plagiarize, Plagiarize, Plagiarize...",
Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 1995.
Awards
Among her other awards, Totenberg won the
Columbia University Dupont Award in 1988 for her coverage of the Supreme Court nominations. She has been honored seven times by the American Bar Association for excellence in legal reporting. She also won the first-ever Tony House award presented by the
American Judicature Society for a career body of work and was the first radio journalist to be honored by the National Press Foundation as Broadcaster of the Year.
References
External links
- Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution from the Jewish Women's Archive