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Commentary: Matt Lauer's firing and other skeletons in newsroom closets

Former Chicago Tribune executive editor Ann Marie Lipinski wrote a powerful, important essay this week about newsroom sexual harassment, and it's all the more essential in the wake of Matt Lauer's firing from NBC.

Lipinski, the head of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism, started working here, in the newsroom whence I type, as a summer intern in 1978. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988, served as the paper's top editor from 2001 to 2008 and, along the way, elegantly navigated

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