... for long before striking out for more high profile and higher paying gigs, a path trod by Katherine Boo, James Fallows, and Jon Meacham, among many others," writes Clint Hendler. || Nicholas Lemann: The magazine's history "is a generally happy one, punctuated by regular financial crises."

... , as well as the night's award recipient, Ken Armstrong, an investigative journalist at The Seattle Times. Columbia Journalism School Dean Nicholas Lemann also introduced a number of people who had worked with Armstrong over the years, including Seattle Times executive editor David Boardman and the publisher of Armstrong's ...