Long hours, daylong stakeouts: How reporters pursued the Kyron Horman story in 2010 (Part 3: Shane Dixon Kavanaugh)
Jun 05, 2025•27 min
Episode description
In 2010, digital tools for journalists were emerging, but the gritty, time-intensive methods of traditional reporting still dominated newsrooms.
The disappearance of 7-year-old Kyron Horman from his Portland elementary school thrust The Oregonian’s journalists into a high-stakes investigation that demanded old-school techniques now increasingly rare in today’s fast-paced media environment.
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