PARTING SHOT
WANT TO BRING DOWN DONALD TRUMP? DON’T COUNT ON ROBERT MUELLER. Forget Congress. Learn to do investigative journalism. And you might as well study with one of the only living people who really did help oust a president: Bob Woodward. He’s best known for his work covering the Watergate revelations for The Washington Post with reporting partner Carl Bernstein (45 years later, they remain good friends). Woodward, still a Post employee, is now spilling his secrets by teaching a MasterClass (an online MasterClass.com workshop) on reporting. The timing couldn’t be better: Trump’s various scandals, coupled with movies like The Post, have awakened a national interest in investigative journalism, and he is historically well-suited to offer insight. (Woodward says Meryl Streep plays his former Post publisher, Katharine Graham, “superbly.”)
But he would chasten you for approaching the work with a political agenda or for not paying attention. In one lesson, the 74-year-old Woodward has this advice for journalists conducting interviews: “Shut up…and just listen.”