Herbert discusses reporting career
When New York Times columnist Bob Herbert started at The New York Daily News in 1976, he said, no one at the mostly white, mostly male office would assign him stories.
“The women who were there could only cover ‘women’s stories,’” he told the more than 60 people crammed into every available space in Calhoun Master Jonathan Holloway’s living room. “During elections, women covered candidates’ wives. I was black, so I covered nothing.”
