Ted Gup has been a journalist for 25 years and is currently the Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA, which traced fifty years of CIA history through the lives and deaths of covert operatives killed in the line of duty. Book of Honor was named 2001 Book of the Year by investigative reporters and editors and was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lucas Book Prize. A former staff writer for The Washington Post and Time Magazine, he has also written for National Geographic, Smithsonian, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Mother Jones, Salon and GQ. Gup was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting and recipient of the George Polk Award. He grew up in Canton, Ohio and studied classics at Brandeis University and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He was a Fulbright Scholar in China, a grantee of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and a 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Pepper Pike, Ohio with his wife, Peggy, and sons, David, 13, and Matthew, 12. His outside interests include fly-fishing, running, and billiards. While at the Shorenstein Center, Mr. Gup will examine press coverage of the CIA.
Covering the CIA in Times of Crisis: Obstacles and Strategies
January 1, 2004
A paper by Ted Gup, fall 2003 fellow, examines how the U.S. press fared in covering the intelligence community before and after two catastrophic intelligence failures—9/11 and the yet-to-be-found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It also explores the obstacles journalists now face and what the stakes are. At no time has covering the intelligence
