Oral history interview with Joyce Purnick [electronic resource], 1994

Biographical Note

Journalist.

Scope and Contents

Education and journalistic career; coverage of 1977 New York City mayoral campaign for New York Post; Rupert Murdoch's favorable coverage of Edward I. Koch [Koch]; comments on press censorship and journalistic freedom; coverage of Koch administration for the New York Times: New York City transit strike, various corruption scandals; Koch's relationship with the press and desire for publicity; Koch and the African American community.

Subjects

• Connable, Roma, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Journalists--Interviews.
• Koch, Ed, 1924-2013.
• New York (N.Y.). Mayor.
• Oral histories.
• Purnick, Joyce--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1994.