[2] He worked with five of his colleagues – Robert D. McFadden, Ralph Blumenthal, E. R. Shipp, M. A. Farber, and Craig Wolff – on Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax, published in 1990 covering the Tawana Brawley rape allegations from three years earlier.
[2] He spoke to Robert Siegel on NPR about the role two years later, as well as some of the notable mistakes of late in the section.
[4] He stated that he would seldom employ the terms "first" or "last" in an obituary, in order to eschew issues with contradictory testimony.
[1][2] He was critical of Byron Calame's tenure as public editor of the Times from 2005 to 2007, describing him as "dreadful" and opining how he was "rearranging the placemats on the Titanic".
[6] Strum delivered a talk at Middlebury College in October 2008 titled "When the Media Call".
[7] He gave another talk five years later at Millersville University of Pennsylvania to students interested in going into journalism.