Back when I was wire editor at one of Knight Ridder's outposts, I always looked forward to Nancy Youssef's dispatches. If you need proof that she's a master of her craft, read this.

Knight Ridder winning a Pulitzer for shaking the trees and ignoring the press briefings during the Iraq War didn’t move that needle, but maybe they’ll benefit from personal experience of what kinds of stories you can get without relying on access to leadership and their comms team.

Knight Ridder ceased to exist in 2006. We were a comparatively responsible company that was alone in exposing the Bush administration's lies leading up to the second Iraq war.

I'm sure this won't be new to you, but Shattered Glass did well for political mags

Shock and Awe (2007) is also very good in this regard. Details the Knight Ridder journalists saw through the Bush admins lies in the lead up to the Iraq invasion.

Could you clarify, perhaps? Knight Ridder is dead. Gannett is unfortunately the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, having been bought in 2019 by private equity companies that censor every local publication's coverage and fire any reporter who might investigate and unsettle the status quo.

I'm still 40 years old -- year, after year, after year ...

That would be wonderful, but Knight Ridder folded in 2006. The buyer of most of its newspapers, McClatchy, crippled itself with debt, went bankrupt, and is owned by one of the worst private-equity funds now.