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'''Murray S. Waas''' (born circa 1961) is an [[United States|American]] [[freelance]] [[investigative journalism|investigative journalist]] known most recently for his coverage of the [[White House]] planning for the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]] and ensuing controversies and [[Political scandals of the United States|American political scandals]] such as the [[Plame affair]] (also known as the "[[CIA leak grand jury investigation]]", the "[[CIA leak scandal]]", and "[[Plamegate]]"). His articles about such matters have appeared in ''[[The American Prospect]]'', ''[[The National Journal]]'', ''[[Salon (magazine)|Salon]]'', and ''[[The Village Voice]]''.<ref name=Welch>Matt Welch, [http://mattwelch.com/OJRsave/OJRsave/SalonBeltway.htm "Salon's Coverage Commands Respect for Net Journalists"], ''Online Journalism Review'' ([[Annenberg School for Communication]] at [[University of Southern California|USC]]), [[March 30]], [[1998]], accessed [[August 26]], [[2007]].
, [[March 30]], [[1998]], accessed [[June 20]], [[2007]].</ref> Waas also comments on contemporary American political controversies in his personal [[blog]]s ''Whatever Already!'' and at ''[[The Huffington Post]]''. An "instant book" on [[United States v. Libby|United States v. I. Lewis Libby]] which he edited, with research assistance by Jeff Lomonaco, was published by Union Square Press (an imprint of [[Sterling Publishing]]) in June 2007.<ref name=Sterling>Press release, [[Sterling Publishing]], [[March 6]], [[2007]], [http://www.sterlingpublishing.com/sterling/press-room "Press Room"]: [http://www.sterlingpublishing.com/file_download/24 US_v_ILewisLibby_Release.doc] (Downloadable document file); cf. [http://www.wood-books.com/catalog?isbn=9781402752599 catalogue description]; both accessed [[June 21]], [[2007]]. [Note: The downloadable press release file is misnamed; it is not a ".pdf" file; it is a ".doc" file.]<!--Checked and updated check on [[August 16]], [[2007]]. To access the downloadable [[DOC]] file misnamed with the faulty [[PDF]] extension, one must download it and then rename it with the [[DOC]] extension prior to opening it. Acrobat Reader does not open it, because it is actually a [[DOC]] file; the error might be corrected by the publisher's website in the future.--></ref><ref name=Waasbookblog>For related information, see Murray Waas, [http://whateveralready.blogspot.com/2007/03/book.html "A Book"], ''Whatever Already!'' (blog), [[March 6]], [[2007]] and [http://whateveralready.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-party.html "Book Party"], ''Whatever Already!'' (blog), [[June 20]], [[2007]]; both accessed [[June 21]], [[2007]].</ref>
==Personal history==
Waas was born in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] and originally hoped to have a career in law and city politics ("To be the district attorney and mayor of the City of Philadelphia"), but he dropped out of [[George Washington University]] before graduating.<ref name=Halloran>Liz Halloran, [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060515/15mediatakes.htm "A Muckraker's Day in the Sun"], interview with Murray Waas, ''[[U.S. News and World Report]]'' [[15 May]], [[2006]], accessed [[29 April]], [[2007]].</ref>
In 1987, when Waas was only twenty-six years old, he learned that he had a life-threatening "advanced form" of cancer. On June 26, 2006, ''Washington Post'' media writer Howard Kurtz disclosed that Waas had been told that he had an "incurable Stage C" cancer and faced a "terminal diagnosis."<ref name=Kurtz>[[Howard Kurtz]], [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/25/AR2006062500953.html "Writer Sat on His Own Life-and-Death Story"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', [[June 25]], [[2006]], C-01, accessed [[June 21]], [[2007]].</ref><ref name=Waaswag>Murray Waas, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/murray-waas/the-wag-time-pet-spa-cons_b_36927.html "The Wag Time Pet Spa Conspiracy ... And a Cancer Survivor's Right to Respect"], ''[[The Huffington Post]]'' (personal blog), [[December 21]], [[2006]], accessed [[June 21]], [[2007]]; contains hyperlink to Kurtz's article and his own related blog entries.</ref>
Subsequently, Waas successfully sued the [[George Washington University]] Medical Center, which had negligently "failed to diagnose his cancer, winning a $650,000 judgment ... in a 1992 verdict ... upheld by the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|D.C. Court of Appeals]]."<ref name=Kurtz/> Although, according to a pathologist hired by Waas to testify in the case, "90% of [such] patients die within two years," Waas survived and was later declared "cancer-free."<ref name=Kurtz/><ref name=Waaswag/>
As result of his activism on behalf of other cancer patients and his public revelations about the prejudices that he says cancer survivors like him face professionally and about other personal matters, Waas has received considerable moral support from others in the [[blogosphere]].<ref name=Waaswag/>
Waas resides in [[Washington, D.C.]]
==Professional career==
While still attending college, Waas began working for American newspaper columnist [[Jack Anderson]].<ref name=Halloran/> His journalistic work has been published in such publications as ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[The Nation]]'', ''[[The Village Voice]]'', and ''[[The Boston Globe]]''. In his twenties he was a staff writer and investigative correspondent for the ''Village Voice''. According to his tribute to Anderson that Waas published in the ''Village Voice'', after the columnist's death at the age of 83: <blockquote>The series of columns we [Anderson and Waas] produced regarding the role of U.S. companies doing business with [[Idi Amin]] were instrumental in leading to the imposition of U.S. economic sanctions against the Amin regime, according to the congressman who originally sponsored legislation seeking the sanctions, and other key congressional staffers who worked on the issue. Some historians in turn say the sanctions may have played an instrumental role in Amin’s subsequent overthrow.<ref name=VV>Murray Waas, [http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0551,waas,71144,2.html "Jack Anderson: An Appreciation: The Muckraking Outsider Never Gave a Damn about Entree"], ''[[The Village Voice]]'', [[December 19]], [[2005]], accessed [[August 16]], [[2007]].</ref></blockquote>
During the Reagan administration, Waas was among a small group of reporters involved in breaking the story of the [[Iran-Contra affair]].<ref name=Welch/> Later, he also reported on [[Whitewater (controversy)|Whitewater]] and the [[Clinton impeachment]] for ''[[Salon.com]]''.<ref name=Welch/>
Most recently, he has worked as a national correspondent and contributing editor of ''[[The National Journal]]''.<ref name=Welch/>
In 1992, Waas was a fellow with the [[Alicia Patterson Foundation]], investigating substandard conditions and questionable deaths at institutions for the mentally retarded, mental hospitals, nursing homes, jails, prisons, juvenile detention centers, and other publicly run facilities.<ref name=Waaswag/>
Following the presidency of [[George Herbert Walker Bush]], in 1993, while a reporter for the ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'', Waas was a finalist for the [[Pulitzer Prize]] in the category of national reporting for his stories detailing that administration's prewar foreign policy towards the Iraqi regime of [[Saddam Hussein]], and that year, along with his ''Los Angeles Times'' colleague Douglas Frantz, Wass was also a recipient of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on The Press, of the John F. Kennedy School of Government of [[Harvard University]], for "a series that detailed United States policy toward [[Iraq]] before the [[Gulf War|Persian Gulf war]]."<ref name=Waaswag/><ref name=NYT>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE4DC173EF936A35757C0A965958260 "Investigative Reporters Win Goldsmith Prize"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[April 5]], [[1993]], accessed [[August 16]], [[2007]] : Frantz and Waas shared the $25,000 prize, which "is named for Berda Marks Goldsmith," with four other reporters from ''[[The Seattle Times]]''.</ref><ref name=Gootman>Elissa L. Gootman, [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=235005 "Goldsmith Prizes Awarded: Top Investigative Reporting Teams Rewarded by $25,000"], ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'', [[March 26]], [[1993]], accessed [[August 21]], [[2007]].</ref>
In a [[May 15]], [[2006]] interview with Elizabeth Halloran, of ''U.S. News and World Report'', when she asked whether he was "working on stories other than those involving the [[Patrick Fitzgerald|Fitzgerald]] [[CIA leak grand jury investigation|investigation]]," Waas indicated that he has "been working on a long, explanatory piece about healthcare issues, the cervical cancer vaccine." Among the questions that he raised with Halloran are: "Why isn't that vaccine going to get to the people it should get to? Is it going to be locked away?"<ref name=Halloran/>{{See main|Cervarix}}
When Halloran went on to ask the subject of his "next story," Waas identified it as "another story about the level of knowledge among high-level administration officials about attempts to discredit [[Joseph C. Wilson|Wilson]] and when they knew about it."<ref name=Halloran/> Waas had already reported on the [[CIA leak grand jury investigation]] of the public outing of Mrs. Wilson's then-classified [[Non-official cover|covert]] [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] identity and the alleged involvement of officials in [[The White House]] in her outing, in his article concerning Wilson published in ''[[The Village Voice]]'' in October/November 2003, in which he concludes: "Of course, nobody would have been looking into [[Valerie Plame|Plame]]'s background had White House officials not leaked her status as a clandestine CIA officer, and if [[Robert Novak|Novak]] hadn't agreed to out her for the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|Bush administration]] in an attempt to discredit her husband."<ref name=VV2>Murray Waas, [http://www.waasinfo.com/clients/waas/The%20Village%20Voice%20Features%20The%20Elephant%20in%20Wilson's%20Living%20Room%20by%20Murray%20S_%20Waas.htm "The Elephant in Wilson's Living Room:] Feds Broaden Leak Probe, Start Grilling Republican Party Officials", ''[[The Village Voice]]'', [[October 29]] - [[November 4]], [[2003]], accessed [[August 18]], [[2007]].</ref>
Several of Waas's later published accounts of that aspect of the [[Plame affair]] inform his Union Square Press book on the [[United States v. Libby|Libby trial]] published in June 2007, which he discusses in some detail in his interview with [[Amy Goodman]] on ''[[Democracy Now!]]''.<ref name=Sterling/><ref name=Goodman>[[Amy Goodman]], [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/07/1436232 "Ex-Cheney Chief of Staff Lewis 'Scooter' Libby Convicted of Perjury, Obstruction in CIA Leak Trial"], interview with Murray Waas and [[Marcy Wheeler]], ''[[Democracy Now!]]'', [[March 7]], [[2007]], accessed [[June 20]], [[2007]].</ref>
==Book publication==
''[[The United States v. I. Lewis Libby (book)|The United States v. I. Lewis Libby]]'', edited and with reporting by Waas, was published by [[Sterling Publishing]]'s Union Square Press imprint on [[June 5]], [[2007]].<ref name=Sterling>Press release, [[Sterling Publishing]], [[March 6]], [[2007]], downloadable document file from publisher's [http://www.sterlingpublishing.com/sterling/press-room "press room]" (miscoded filename as [[PDF]]; it is a [[DOC]] file: [http://www.sterlingpublishing.com/file_download/24 US_v_ILewisLibby_Release.doc"]); see [http://www.wood-books.com/catalog?isbn=9781402752599 catalogue description]; both accessed [[June 18]], [[2007]]. (Jeff Lomonaco, a professor of political science at the [[University of Minnesota]], assisted Waas with research.)</ref> According to the press release, Waas has "drawn from the transcript of [[United States v. Libby|the trial of Scooter Libby]]" in editing and assembling this "instant book," which combines "pivotal testimony by key witnesses from the trial, along with original reporting and an introductory essay ['The Last Compartment'] by Waas," who "receiv[ed] research assistance" from Jeff Lomonaco, a professor of political science at the [[University of Minnesota]].<ref name=Sterling/>
In "FDL Book Salon", Lomonaco, who was Waas's collaborator in preparing the book, observes:<blockquote>The bulk of the book is an edited version of the trial transcript, carefully cut down from its original size of nearly one million words to a more manageable and readable length, along with the most important and illuminating of the extraordinary documentary evidence presented at the trial. Murray has simply owned this story since the beginning with his ability to get sources and documents no one else can. The book has an excellent introduction entitled 'The Last Compartment' which emphasizes what I think is at the heart of the case: the compartmentalized effort of Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] and [[Lewis Libby|Libby]], his most important adviser, to respond to [[Joseph C. Wilson|Joe Wilson]]’s criticisms of the OVP [Office of the Vice President] over its role in publicly justifying the [[2003 Iraq War|Iraq war]] in part by disclosing to reporters that Wilson’s wife [Valerie E. Wilson (aka [[Valerie Plame]])] worked at the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. We also offer a variety of editorial aids to making your way through the transcript.<ref name=FDLSalon>[http://www.firedoglake.com/index.php?author=84 "FDL Book Salon Welcomes Murray Waas and Jeff Lomonaco"], online posting by "Jeff", ''[[Jane Hamsher|Firedoglake]]'' (blog), [[June 10]], [[2007]], accessed [[June 20]], [[2007]]. (Online interview with Waas and Lomonaco, who answer questions about the book in the format of an online chat with FDL Book Salon participants after an introduction by Lomonaco.)</ref></blockquote>
==Notable assessments of Waas's journalism==
On [[October 27]], [[1992]], the late [[David Shaw (writer)|David Shaw]], then a staff writer for ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'' who won a [[Pulitzer Prize for Criticism]] the previous year, assessed the reporting by his colleagues Murray Waas and Douglas Frantz on the first Bush administration's prewar policy towards Iraq leading up to the first [[Gulf War]], which included "more than 100 stories, totaling more than 90,000 words": "The [[Los Angeles Times|Times]]'s stories—many based on previously secret papers prepared by the Bush administration—alleged that the Bush administration tried to cover up what it had done by altering documents it supplied to Congress and by attempting to obstruct official investigations of aid to Iraq," quoting the observation of [[Leonard Downie]], executive editor of ''[[The Washington Post]]'', that his own newspaper was "slow in getting up to speed on that story, in part because it's the kind of story involving careful work with documents... Once you're behind, it takes a while to catch up." Downie credits the ''Los Angeles Times'' with "pav[ing] the way," saying that that is "why we began pursuing it after really not noticing it from the outset."<ref>David Shaw, [http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/food/la-me-shaw27oct27,1,6057214.story?page=1&coll=la-headlines-pe-food "Iraqgate—A Case Study of a Big Story With Little Impact: Despite Hundreds of News Reports, No Public Outrage Has Erupted Over Secret U.S. Aid to Iraq"], ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'', [[October 27]], [[1992]], accessed [[August 17]], [[2007]].</ref>
In June 1998, [[J.D. Lasica]] published "The Web: A New Channel for Investigative Journalism", a "sidebar" to his article entitled "Salon: The Best Pure-Play Web Publication?", published in ''[[American Journalism Review]]'', assessing reporting on the [[Impeachment of Bill Clinton]] in ''[[Salon (magazine)|Salon.com]]'' by Waas and his colleagues, observing that "''Salon's'' coverage of the [[Lewinsky scandal|Clinton-Lewinsky matter]]—its first sustained foray into classic investigative journalism—has served as a counterweight to the [[mass media|mainstream media]]'s wolfpack mindset" and citing the view of [[Andrew Ross]] (then-managing editor of ''Salon''); according to Lasica, "Salon's investigative journalism ... has raised old media's hackles because, Ross says, it was done the old-fashioned way: shoe leather, cultivating sources, working the phones—no new-media tricks here." Indeed, Lasica continues the 1998 account, by pointing out that Waas, who has written a dozen stories for Salon, is [at that time] a bit of a technophobe; he never signs onto the Web and has never seen his stories online. He writes for Salon, he says, because 'I like the daily rhythm and the immediacy.'"<ref>[[J.D. Lasica]], [http://www.jdlasica.com/articles/salonsider.html "The Web: A New Channel for Investigative Journalism:] Salon's Groundbreaking Stories on the [[Kenneth Starr|Ken Starr]] Investigation Challenge the Conventional Wisdom Laid Down by the Mainstream Media's Wolfpack Mindset", ''[[American Journalism Review]]'', June 1998, sidebar to [http://www.jdlasica.com/articles/salon.html "Salon: The Best Pure-Play Web Publication?] Salon's Savvy Blend of New and Old Media Has Made It a Pacesetter for Online Journalism. It May Also Be a Harbinger of Journalism's Future on the Internet", ''[[American Journalism Review]]'', June 1998, accessed [[August 17]], [[2007]].</ref>
Waas's reporting on the administration of [[George W. Bush]], especially with regard to the [[Plame affair]], has been called "groundbreaking" by [[New York University]] journalism Professor [[Jay Rosen]], who considers Waas the "new [[Bob Woodward]]": "By Woodward Now," Rosen writes of Waas, "I mean the reporter who is actually doing what Woodward has a reputation for doing: finding, tracking, breaking into reportable parts—and then publishing—the biggest story in town."<ref name=Rosen>[[Jay Rosen]], [http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/04/09/waas_now.html "Murray Waas Is Our Woodward Now"], ''PressThink'' (blog), [[April 9]], [[2006]], accessed [[June 21]], [[2007]]</ref>
In the Summer of 2006, writing in'' Nieman Reports'', Jim Boyd, former deputy editorial page editor of the ''[[Minneapolis Star-Tribune]]'' for twenty-four years, prepared an "exclusive list" of newspaper reporters whom he considered "courageous," including among them Murray Waas: "People I consider courageous are Murray Waas at the [[National Journal]]; [[Dan Froomkin]] at [[The Washington Post|washingtonpost.com]] and niemanwatchdog.org; Warren Strobel and several of his colleagues at the [[Knight Ridder]] Washington bureau (soon to be the [[The McClatchy Company|McClatchy]] Washington bureau); [[Walter Pincus]] and [[Dana Priest]] of the [Washington] Post. And, of course, [[Helen Thomas]]."<ref name=Boyd>[[Jim Boyd]], [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/06-2NRsummer/p92-0602-boyd.html "Editorial Pages: Why Courage Is Hard to Find"], ''Niemann Reports'' ([[Nieman Foundation for Journalism]] of [[Harvard University]]), Summer 2006 ("Reflections on Courage: United States"), accessed [[August 19]], [[2007]].</ref>
==See also==
*[[Iran-Contra affair]]
*[[Kenneth Starr]]
*[[Watchdog journalism]]
==Notes==
{{Reflist|2}}
==Bibliography==
;Murray Waas's personal blogs
*[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/murray-waas "Murray Waas"] at ''[[The Huffington Post]]''. Accessed [[August 22]], [[2007]].
*''[http://whateveralready.blogspot.com/ Whatever Already!]'' Accessed [[August 22]], [[2007]].
;Other pertinent selected articles and books by Murray Waas
*[http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/waas.htm "Administration: The CIA Leak Investigation"]. Articles by Murray Waas in ''[[National Journal]]'' (2005-2007). Accessed [[June 21]], [[2007]].
*[http://www.prospect.org/cs/author?id=679 "Articles by Murray Waas"] in ''[[The American Prospect]]'' (2001-2005). Accessed [[June 21]], [[2007]].
*[http://search.salon.com/results/?query=Murray%20S.%20Waas&breadth=archive "Murray S. Waas"] Archived articles in ''[[Salon (magazine)|Salon]]''. Accessed [[June 21]], [[2007]].
*Waas, Murray, ed., with Jeff Lomonaco. ''[[The United States v. I. Lewis Libby (book)|The United States v. I. Lewis Libby]]''. New York: Union Square Press (imprint of [[Sterling Publishing]]), 2007. ISBN 1402752598 (10). ISBN 978-1402752599 (13). ("Edited & with reporting by Murray Waas" and with research assistance by Jeff Lomonaco.)
;Pertinent selected articles about and interviews of Waas
*Baker, Russ W. [http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/93/2/iraqgate.asp "Iraqgate: The Big One That (Almost) Got Away: Who Chased It and Who Didn't"]. ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'', March/April 1993. Accessed [[August 19]], [[2007]].
*Boyd, Jim. [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/06-2NRsummer/p92-0602-boyd.html "Editorial Pages: Why Courage Is Hard to Find"]. ''Nieman Reports'' ([[Nieman Foundation for Journalism]] of [[Harvard University]]), Summer 2006 ("Reflections on Courage: United States"). Accessed [[August 19]], [[2007]]
*[http://www.firedoglake.com/index.php?author=84 "FDL Book Salon Welcomes Murray Waas and Jeff Lomonaco"]. Online posting by "Jeff". ''[[Jane Hamsher|Firedoglake]]'' (blog), [[June 10]], [[2007]]. Accessed [[June 20]], [[2007]]. (Online interview with Waas and Lomonaco.)
*Froomkin, Dan. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/03/31/BL2006033100695.html "A Compelling Story"] ''Washington Post.com'', March 31, 2006. Accessed [[August 19]], [[2007]].
*[[Amy Goodman|Goodman, Amy]], [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/07/1436232 "Ex-Cheney Chief of Staff Lewis 'Scooter' Libby Convicted of Perjury, Obstruction in CIA Leak Trial"]. Interview with Murray Waas and [[Marcy Wheeler]]. ''[[Democracy Now!]]'', [[March 7]], [[2007]]. Accessed [[June 20]], [[2007]].
*Gootman, Elissa L. [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=235005 "Goldsmith Prizes Awarded: Top Investigative Reporting Teams Rewarded by $25,000"]. ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'', [[March 26]], [[1993]]. Accessed [[August 21]], [[2007]].
*Halloran, Liz. [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060515/15mediatakes.htm "A Muckraker's Day in the Sun"]. ''[[U.S. News and World Report]]'', [[May 15]], [[2006]]. Accessed [[April 29]], [[2007]].
*Hertzberg, Hendrick. [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/12/05/051205ta_talk_hertzberg "Comment: Floor War"]. ''[[The New Yorker]]'', [[December 5]], [[2005]]. Accessed [[August 20]], [[2007]].
*[[Howard Kurtz|Kurtz, Howard]]. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/16/AR2006041601027_2.html "The Lone Ranger:] After a Quarter Century in the Journalistic Shadows, Murray Waas Is Getting His Day in the Sun." ''[[The Washington Post]]'', [[April 17]], [[2006]]. Accessed [[June 20]], [[2007]].
*Kurtz, Howard. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/25/AR2006062500953.html "Writer Sat on His Own Life and Death Story"]. ''[[The Washington Post]]'', [[June 25]], [[2006]]. Accessed [[August 19]], [[2007]].
*[[J.D. Lasica|Lasica, J. D.]] [http://www.jdlasica.com/articles/salonsider.html "The Web: A New Channel for Investigative Journalism:] Salon's Groundbreaking Stories on the [[Kenneth Starr|Ken Starr]] Investigation Challenge the Conventional Wisdom Laid Down by the Mainstream Media's Wolfpack Mindset". ''[[American Journalism Review]]'', June 1998. Accessed [[August 19]], [[2007]].
*Lewis, Anthony. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE2DD1531F935A15753C1A964958260 "Abroad at Home; Trust"]. ''[[New York Times]]'', [[October 26]], [[1992]]. Accessed [[March 26]], [[2008]].
*–––. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE1DF1130F936A25750C0A964958260 "Abroad at Home; Who Fed This Caesar?"] ''[[New York Times]]'', [[March 15]], [[1992]]. Accessed [[March 26]], [[2008]].
*Lewis, Claude. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB29F4B9C63D5D0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM"See the Mighty Fall: Investigative Reporting Has its Rewards"]. ''[[Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', [[October 10]], [[1988]]: A13. Accessed [[August 24]], [[2007]]. (Abstract. Archive account required for access to full text.)
*[[Jay Rosen|Rosen, Jay]]. [http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/04/09/waas_now.html "Murray Waas Is Our Woodward Now"]. ''PressThink'' (blog), [[April 9]], [[2006]]. Accessed [[June 20]], [[2007]].
*Sargent, Greg. [http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=11370 "The Plame Game: What Murray Waas' Big Scoop May Really Tell us About Bush's Pre-war Deceptions"]. ''[[The American Prospect]]'', [[April 4]], [[2006]]. Accessed [[August 20]] [[2007]].
*Schanberg, Sydney H. [http://www1.villagevoice.com/news/0548,schanberg,70452,6.html "Press Clips: If Old Journalism Dies... Where Will New Media Get the News?"] ''[[The Village Voice]]'', [[November 29]], [[2005]]. Accessed [[August 20]], [[2007]].
*Scheer, Robert. [http://www.ojr.org/ojr/business/1017969505.php "Finally, A Yuppie Failure"]. ''Online Journalism Review'' ([[USC Annenberg School for Communication|Annenberg School for Communication]] at [[University of Southern California|USC]]), [[July 21]], [[1998]]. Accessed [[August 22]],[[2007]].
*[[David Shaw|Shaw, David]]. [http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/food/la-me-shaw27oct27,1,6057214.story?page=1&coll=la-headlines-pe-food "Iraqgate--A Case Study of a Big Story With Little Impact: Despite Hundreds of News Reports, No Public Outrage Has Erupted Over Secret Aid to Iraq"]. ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'', [[October 27]], [[1992]]. Accessed [[August 19]], [[2007]].
*Welch, Matt. [http://mattwelch.com/OJRsave/OJRsave/SalonBeltway.htm "Salon's Coverage Commands Respect for Net Journalists"]. ''Online Journalism Review'' ([[Annenberg School for Communication]] at [[University of Southern California|USC]]), [[March 30]], [[1998]]. Accessed [[August 26]], [[2007]].
==External links==
*''[http://www.waasinfo.com/ Murray S. Waas Website]'' – Personal website (incomplete; under construction). Accessed [[May 16]], [[2008]].
*''[http://murraywaas.net/index.html Murray Waas]'' – Personal website (with articles by Waas). Accessed [[May 16]], [[2008]].
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