url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/07/02/john-edwards-partying-like-a-frat-boy/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Former Democratic presidential candidate and Senator John Edwards is under investigation by a federal grand jury for campaign fraud and separated from his wife of 30 years Elizabeth Edwards, but is still partying like a frat boy. “On a given night, he might pop up at The Federal, a dimly lit Durham dive bar,...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/06/02/al-tipper-gore-to-separate/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC'; Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper Gore are legally separated and planning to divorce, according to an email sent to their friends. The email text: (PDF) Cartoon courtesy of Brett Noel From: Al & Tipper Gore Date: June 1, 2010 12:21:48 PM EDT Subject: Message from Al & Tipper Gore Hi,...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/06/02/elizabeth-edwards-vs-rielle-hunter-for-custody-of-john-edwards-children/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Over the weekend, the New York Daily News reported that Elizabeth Edwards is planning for her death and wants her daughterCate, 28, to take custody of her two youngest children, instead of their father John Edwards. Elizabeth, who has been battling terminal cancer, apparently does not want her estranged husband’s baby mama Rielle Hunter to raise Emma Claire, 12, and Jack,...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/05/25/gq-all-the-dirt-thats-fit-to-print/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Excerpt: “Levine and his reporters beat everyone to the Edwards scoop; not since Bill Clinton’s first “bimbo eruptions” has a supermarket tabloid so completely owned a major political story, which led a number of columnists, beginning with D.C.-based blogger Emily Miller, to suggest that the Enquirer‘s work on Edwards was worthy of a Pulitzer...
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Absolutely. The Enquirer was robbed: While the rest of the journalism world was sleeping, says Emily Miller in The Washington Times, the National Enquirer shouldered the "expense of running a top-notch" investigation that ultimately brought to light the Edwards sex scandal. The Enquirer has won some hard-earned respect — for itself and all "nontraditional...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/04/12/gawker-pulitzer-prize-or-not-the-national-enquirer-will-soldier-on/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Click to read on Gawker The National Enquirer didn’t win a Pulitzer today for its reporting on John Edwards‘ baby mama drama. How’s the tabloid coping with defeat? Just after the results were announced, we called Barry Levine, the Enquirer‘s executive editor, to find out. The Enquirer had been nominated for awards in the investigative and national reporting categories....
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/04/12/politisite-and-the-pulitzer-goes-to-national-enquirer-snubbed-by-snobs/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Click to read at Politisite Emily Miller’s new gig at the Washington Times has her asking if the National Enquirer was snubbed by snobs. I wonder if a Pulitzer would have gone their way if they uncovered a Republican Presidential candidate whoring around while his Wife suffered from Cancer. But a Pulitzer in investigative reporting...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/02/01/national-enquirer-deserves-a-pulitzer-however-the-enquirer-got-the-story-edwards-scandal-was-the-truth/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Inside an office on Columbia University’s campus, the Pulitzer Prize staff is sorting through the stacks of submissions postmarked by Monday. One of the packages is a FedEx box containing a black three-ring notebook. The screams heard from inside the ivy-walled, ivory-towered building will let us know that the panel members have read the...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/01/21/national-enquirer-submits-for-pulitzer-prize-after-john-edwards-admits-paternity-of-rielle-hunters-daughter-2/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Barry Levine, editor of the National Enquirer, is nominating his reporters for a Pulitzer Prize for their work in uncovering the John Edwards affair. Levine told me that Edwards’ admission Thursday that he fathered a daughter with a campaign videographer during his 2008 presidential run made him decide to submit nomination forms for his reporters in two categories: for...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/01/19/does-the-national-enquirer-deserve-a-pulitzer-for-breaking-the-john-edwards-scandal/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';During the 2008 presidential campaign, the paper was literally on Edwards’ heels, reporting as early as late 2007 that Edwards was having an affair and his mistress was pregnant. Edwards only defense was to call the Enquirer “tabloid trash,” which was enough to stop mainstream media outlets from further investigating the photo-documented reports. Riveting new...
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