Talk:Richard Sale (journalist)

Request edit 09-MAY-2018

• Richard T. Sale (born March 26, 1939) is an American journalist and intelligence analyst who covered Iran, the Middle East, U.S. military and foreign affairs, especially covert operations. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
  
• His work has appeared in newspapers throughout the country, and, notably, the Sais Review, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Quarterly, Mediterranean Quarterly, National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Washington Post Magazine, The Washington Times, The Middle East Times, Hawaii Business, The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser (now the Honolulu Star-Advertiser), Pacific Business News and Orange County (CA) Magazine. He has made guest appearances on NPR, MSNBC, Fox News, Canadian Public Television and other broadcast networks.
  
• Sale twice lectured at Harvard University, the University of Miami, and Hawaii University.
  
• He has published three books: The Blackstone Rangers (by Random House 1971); Traitors: The Worst Acts of Treason in American History from Benedict Arnold to Robert Hanssen (by Berkley Publishing 2003); and Clinton’s Secret Wars - The Evolution of a Commander in Chief (by St. Martin’s Press 2009), selected for the History Book Club, the Military Book Club, and Book of the Month Club 2.
  
• Two of his short stories were nominated for the O. Henry Award. One of which was made into a movie, Orca.
• His father, Richard B. Sale, was a writer for Argosy and “the pulp magazines” in the 1930s. His first novel, Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep, earned a cult following in England. Sale later became a Hollywood screenwriter, director and producer. His films included Suddenly, starring Frank Sinatra as an assassin trying to kill a U.S. president. In 1960, Sale had a series on CBS called Yancy Derringer. He also wrote the novel, White Buffalo, which was made into a film by that name starring Charles Bronson.

Background and Education

• Richard T. Sale was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. He went to public grade and high schools in Pelham, New York, and then a private high school in St. Louis, Missouri. He went on to Columbia College in New York for two years, finishing at The Principia, a liberal arts college in Elsah, Illinois, graduating with great honors.

First Fiction

• In May 1964, Sale published his first short story, The Hunted, in The Carolina Quarterly. It was later made into the movie, Orca. The next year Carolina Quarterly published his story, At the Dark’s Edge, How Great the Darkness Is. Both were nominated for the O. Henry Award by Carolina Quarterly editor Robert Morgan who praised it in a March 18, 1964, letter: for “its clear, moving style and beautiful imagery, are some of the finest we have seen recently. We are particularly impressed with the overall dramatic rhythm of the story, and the depth and control of the love scene.”

Journalism Career – Select Affiliations

LIFE Magazine

• In January 1968, Sale was hired by LIFE Magazine in its New York office. On his third day, he teamed with LIFE’s Saigon reporter Frank McCullough to produce a cover story about Ho Chi Minh for the March 22, 1968 issue.
• Then for LIFE, Sale lived for five months with The Blackstone Rangers, a 4,500-member African American street gang based in the Southside of Chicago. He wrote a book on his experience, The Blackstone Rangers, published by Random House in 1971, which earned a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly.

Next, LIFE sent Sale to cover the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago with Howard Bingham, Muhammad Ali's personal photographer. In 2018, Sale finished an historical fiction novel, Virtue’s Fool, based on this experience.

The Washington Post

• With an advance from The Washington Post, Sale went to Iran for eight weeks. The result was a six-part front-page series that said the Shah of Iran was going to fall and be replaced by Islamic extremists.

UPI

• From 1987 to 1989, Sale was at the Washington, DC, bureau of UPI (United Press International), where Gregory Gordon, director of UPI’s investigative team said in a Sept. 8, 1987, press release: “Since arriving at UPI in July, Sale, 48, has turned out a stream of exclusive stories about developments in the Persian Gulf and other subjects. Richard Sale has established his credentials as a courageous, top-notch reporter whose intelligence contacts have already begun to provide new depth to UPI's coverage of foreign policy.”
• In the fall of 2000, UPI re-hired Sale as Terrorism Correspondent. His first story, Dec. 8, 2000, U.S physics blunder almost ended space programs U.S. physics blunder almost ended space programs. U.S. scientists exploded nuclear weapons in the Van Allen belts knocking out all satellites for a time. https://upi.com/4423020 or https://www.upi.com/Archives/2000/12/08/US-physics-blunder-almost-ended-space-programs/4311976251600/
• Another of Sale’s UPI exclusives: April 27, 2001, U.S. banks lose billions in cyber attacks (UPI)

On April 10, 2003, Sale was promoted to Intelligence Correspondent and continued to report on the Middle East, including Iraq, Syria and Iran, and covert operations for UPI until 2009.

ISSSource

• Since 2010, Sale has produced exclusives for ISSSource (Industrial Safety and Security Source), a web-based newsletter covering computer safety and cyber intrusions.
• These exclusives included: “Stuxnet Loaded by Iran Double Agents,” Stuxnet Loaded by Iran Double Agents, April 11, 2012; Iran behind Shamoon Attack « isssource.com, Oct. 15, 2012; Utility Blackouts as a Weapon « isssource.com. May 29, 2013.

Awards and Honors

• In 1989, UPI nominated Sale for the Pulitzer Prize, and while his entry did not win, it was awarded a citation by the National Press Club for excellence in diplomatic reporting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cah208 (talk • contribs) 18:22, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Reply 09-MAY-2018

 Not done Please provide references for the changes you'd like made.

1. Lots of the facts that you've added can be confirmed through the items themselves (a book written by the subject may be cited using the book).
2. If he is known primarily as a journalist, then the fiction he has written about should be omitted. The exception to this would be his writing of the story which would later become the film Orca.
3. Information about his parent's work/publications should be omitted.
4. Information about lectures should come from a third party. The lecture at Harvard, for example, should be referenced by a source originating from Harvard.
5. Information on individual articles written by the subject for UPI need not include everything published. Ideally, only those articles which garnered extra attention or were significant in some other way as to receive mention in other publications, should be included.
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When ready to proceed with the required references, please feel free to open a new edit request at your earliest convenience. .spintendo⋅⋅) 19:01, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

death

this man died in 2020, please update

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/14598553/Richard-Townsend-Sale 70.105.253.84 (talk) 12:43, 12 April 2023 (UTC)