It was not that Claude was some flaming liberal or liberator, he just liked a good story and liked to have it first. And frequently he was reporting on injustice and they knew, on the civil rights side, that if The New York Times wrote about it, it would get attention from important people.

Hank Klibanoff

Hank Klibanoff is an American journalist, now a professor at Emory University. He and Gene Roberts won the annual Pulitzer Prize for History in 2007 recognizing their book The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. He was Managing Editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution until June 24, 2008, when he stepped down. He had been Deputy Managing Editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he worked for 20 years. He had also been a reporter for six year in Mississippi and three years at The Boston Globe.

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