James Reston

James Barrett Reston (11 November 1909 – 12 June 1995) (nicknamed "Scotty") was a prominent American journalist whose career spanned the mid 1930s to the early 1990s. Associated for many years with The New York Times, he became perhaps the most powerful, influential, and widely-read journalists of his era.

Reference

Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism (2002), by John F. Stacks; ISBN 0-316-80985-3

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