What made him the gold standard was that he went where other reporters didn't go, and once he got there they followed.

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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