Journalists are reexamining their reliance on a longtime source: The police
30 June 2020
30 June 2020
For several weeks early this year, reporter Larry Hobbs struggled to nail down the story he was chasing. Police in his hometown of Brunswick, Ga., had offered few details about the death of a young African American man, shot to death at midday on a quiet residential street — no suspects, no arrests. The name of the deceased didn’t even appear in the initial police narrative about the incident. Hobbs, a veteran reporter for the Brunswick News, came to a conclusion: “This is starting to stink.” More than a month later, Hobbs broke the story that would soon make national ...
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