It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.