Steve Alperin
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Steve Alperin is best known as an editor, producer, and writer at ABC News
ABC News
ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...

. Alperin served as Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer...

's head writer and producer for most of the ABC anchor's last decade at the helm of World News Tonight. According to The New York Times, Alperin is part of the team leading Rupert Murdoch's new tablet news organization.
Alperin graduated from The Haverford School in 1992.

Foley Scandal

Alperin was later the editor in charge of ABC's website when it broke the scandal involving Congressmen Mark Foley
Mark Foley
Mark Adam Foley is a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He served from 1995 until 2006, representing the 16th District of Florida as a member of the Republican Party....

 and sexually explicit emails to underage congressional pages.

The Foley story and its evolution are cited as important moments in the use of the internet to further investigative reporting at a major news organization.

The Investigative Reporters and Editors Association said the following in recognizing the story for an award:
Acting on information that other mainstream news organizations downplayed or ignored, ABCNews.com broke the first stories of Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate behavior with congressional pages and relentlessly drove the coverage as it widened into a full-blown congressional scandal. In doing so, these journalists demonstrated the power and speed of the Internet as a tool for reporting and disseminating national news. As new angles developed, ABC expanded on its website exclusives with nightly broadcast reports, a synergistic alliance that set a model for other media outlets.


The ABC anchorman Charles Gibson
Charles Gibson
Charles deWolf "Charlie" Gibson is a former American broadcast television anchor and journalist. He was a host of Good Morning America from 1987 to 1998 and 1999 to 2006 and anchor of World News with Charles Gibson from 2006 to 2009....

 was quoted as saying he initially didn't think the story was suitable for his program because of its explicit content and the low profile of the subject.

Some debate still exists about the timing of the story only a few months before the 2004 mid-term elections, and to what degree the scandal suppressed turnout.

Awards

Alperin is the recipient of two awards from the Writers Guild of America
Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:* The Writers Guild of America, East , representing TV and film writers East of the Mississippi....

, including one for the feature "Reagan's Funeral".

External links

  • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184090/awards
  • http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/generalities/cbs_abc_win_wga_awards_6127.asp
  • http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6211216
  • http://www.ire.org/contest/06winners.html
  • http://www.sptimes.com/2006/10/05/Columns/Why_the_Times_didn_t_.shtml
  • http://www.marketingvox.com/foley_story_highlights_new_role_of_citizen_journalists-022808/
  • http://www.panacheprivee.com/File/Steven_Alperin/
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