Shelby Coffey III

Charles Shelby Coffey III[1] (born either 1946 or 1947)[2] is a journalist and business executive from Lookout Mountain, Tennessee,[2] who is now a senior fellow of the Freedom Forum and a trustee of the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

He was also senior vice president and editor of the Dallas Times-Herald..[3] In 1995 The National Press Foundation named Coffey as its Editor of the Year in recognition of coverage by the Los Angeles Times of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the 1994 O.J.

Wells Award in 1995 "for exemplary achievement in the hiring and advancement of minorities in the news media.

Webb had claimed that members of the Contra rebels in Nicaragua played a major role in creating the U.S. crack cocaine trade, using their smuggling profits to support their guerrilla war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government.

for using anonymous sources, taking government claims too credulously, and failing to pursue Webb's story further.