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Edward Wasserman
Edward Wasserman, a veteran South Florida newspaper editor and writer, is the Knight professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Previously, Wasserman worked for news organizations in Maryland, Wyoming and New York City, was executive business editor of The Miami Herald and CEO and editor in chief of American Lawyer Media's Miami-based Daily Business Review chain. He was educated at Yale, the University of Paris and the London School of Economics.

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