You know, I know a lot of journalists, and practically every one of them would give anything for a job at the New York Times. Thanks.ĭAVIES: Well, it's good to have you. LeDuff spoke with FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies.ĭAVE DAVIES, HOST: Well, Charlie LeDuff, welcome to FRESH AIR.ĬHARLIE LEDUFF: I've always wanted to be here. On camera he wears sunglasses and talks with a swagger, referring to the mayor as Dave and the county executive as Bob, unquote. He stares into the camera and makes funny faces.
He doesn't comb his hair every day and almost never dresses up. He's now a TV reporter for the local Fox affiliate, where the local website, Deadline Detroit, wrote that LeDuff has, quote, thrown out the rules of how to be a TV reporter. LeDuff did color stories and investigative pieces on the city's politicians, cops, firefighters and struggling citizens for the Detroit News. He spent 12 years at the New York Times, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. LeDuff grew up in a blue collar suburb of Detroit. It was the vanguard of our way up just as it is the vanguard of our way down, and one hopes, the vanguard of our way up again. In the new book "Detroit: An American Autopsy," our guest, journalist Charlie LeDuff, writes: It is awful here, but I believe that Detroit is America's city.
To many people, Detroit is a symbol of urban decay.
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