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Correction: Giving Totenberg her due for tenure

By Mark Obbie

In keeping with today's mea culpa theme, I now believe I erred when I assumed (and at least confessed that I was winging it) that Linda Greenhouse's departure puts Tony Mauro in second place for SCOTUS beat seniority, behind only Lyle Denniston. That skips Mauro over NPR's Nina Totenberg, whose tenure at NPR predates Mauro's on the Supreme Court beat (originally for Gannett News Service, then USA Today) by four years (1975 vs. 1979). What I don't know for sure because NPR hasn't responded is whether Totenberg has covered the beat that entire 33 years -- or at least since before 1979. I believe she has, and so the beat's seniority roster is Denniston, Totenberg, Mauro after Greenhouse's departure. I'll continue to break into regular programming with these breathless tenure alerts as events warrant.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).