Hats off to these guys

The Washington Post's Bernstein, Bradlee and Woodward set a very high standard for investigative journalism and ethics back in the days of Watergate. Here's how the Washington Post broke the story.

As it turned out, these guys all became heroes to their fellow journalists and to many of the rest of us. A researcher found 30 years later that they are still admired by other reporters and editors. To quote from the Missouri Ed website,

Bonnie Brennen, associate professor in the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia, recently found that All the President’s Men, written by investigative reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, continues to serve as a handbook for many American journalists 30 years later. The book, which recounts the process Woodward and Bernstein followed while uncovering Watergate, helped establish the processes that many of today’s journalists now follow, such as using anonymous sources, checking and re-checking facts, and corroborating all charges and accusations with at least two other sources of information

"The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate papers" eventually came to the University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about the exhibit here.