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Toobin, O.J. and the New Yorker

July 16, 2009 at 12:44 pm by Chris Preovolos

A few months ago I attended a talk by Tina Brown, part of a magazine journalism lecture series at Columbia University, where she mostly talked about her newest venture, The Daily Beast.

Brown is most famous for her stints as editor at Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, where she helped launch the careers of many writers who are today household names (OK, in east-coast-media-elite households anyway).

Jeffrey Toobin is one of those writers.

After working as an assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, Toobin resumed a writing career he began in college and took an assignment covering O.J. Simpson’s criminal trial. According to Brown, after initially filing straightforward accounts of the legal proceedings, Toobin came into his own, providing the rich textural detail the New Yorker is famous for, as well as the legal insight of a trial attorney.

These days, amid all the windbags on cable television news (the mere sight of Nancy Grace sends shivers up my spine), Toobin stands out and his New Yorker pieces are a pleasure to read, even when he’s not writing about the law.

CASE IN POINT: Toobin’s profile of Barney Frank.

–CP

Chris Preovolos

Chris Preovolos

Chris Preovolos is a web producer for the Hearst Connecticut Media Group.
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