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In a corner of a big, empty Krispy Kreme in Atlanta, Valeria Sistrunk is nibbling on a donut. She is 27, with wide eyes and an ever-present smile. She has the positive energy of a TV newscaster—a job she stumbled into by chance: in high school, her guidance counselor randomly stuck her in an elective...
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The story, headlined “Drunk, shirtless Florida man arrested after shoveling spaghetti in his mouth at Olive Garden,” hit the website of southwest Florida’s NBC-Channel 2 at 11:13am on April 8 this year. The mugshot revealed a scraped and bruised 32-year-old man named Ben Padgett. His long brown hair, beard, and penetrating eyes caused some...
‘Orphan counties,’ and a battle over what local news really means
Jill and Michael Fischer live seven miles outside the city of Durango, a historic mountain town of nearly 20,000 and the seat of La Plata County in southwest Colorado. When they turn on their TV for local news, however, evening broadcasts—about community events, the weather, and most notably politics—arrive via satellite from Albuquerque, New Mexico,...
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I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true.
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In interview, Michael Wolff says as a non-institutional reporter it's "silly" to ask subjects for their responses to claims when you know what they will be (@grynbaum / New York Times)https://t.co/X0KwJcaz2Fhttps://t.co/7dej5lWagd
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