Howard Kurtz

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Kurtz's 2008 “Reliable Sources” interview of Kimberly Dozier a CBS journalist wounded in Iraq was criticized by several media ethicists due to the fact that Kurtz's wife had been paid to serve as a publicist for Ms. [citation needed] His last day at The Washington Post was October 15 2010. Journalist Mickey Kaus reporting on and partially quoting from a letter by journalist Charles Kaiser in The New Republic wrote that Kurtz "has large non-technical conflicts of interest since he free-lances and takes money 'from the people he writes about from Time Warner to Condé Nast.

He has written five books about the media. He is host of CNN's Reliable Sources program and Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast. He is the former media writer for The Washington Post.