Nearly 40 years ago, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein exposed the deception of the Nixon White House through a series of articles in the Washington Post. The Watergate scandal may have been the high water mark for investigative journalism.

With the help of Mark Felt, otherwise known as Deep Throat, as well as tenacious reporting and a high sense of moral purpose, the Post brought down a president. In Roy J. Hart, Jr.’s book, “Pulitzer’s Gold: Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism,” Woodward and Bernstein’s work was referred to as “maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time.”

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