Joshua Benton

Joshua Benton is a senior writer at Nieman Lab, which he founded and led for 12 years.

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  1. Why ‘The Watergate Three’ Are Remembered as a Duo

    Doing great journalism requires an infrastructure, including a lot of talented people who don’t get bylines. Barry Sussman—the Watergate journalist named neither “Woodward” nor “Bernstein”—was one.

    A scribbled out portrait of Sussman
    John Sunderland / The Denver Post / Getty; The Atlantic