Hard News
Mar 12, 2020•52 min
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Episode description
Think you don’t get your news from the paper anymore? Think again. Betsy Edwards, Executive Director of the Virginia Press Association, says that just about every big thing that’s ever happened in this country was unearthed by a newspaper reporter.
And: Lewis Raven Wallace was fired from his job as a reporter at American Public Media’s Marketplace. Ever since, he’s been questioning the role of objectivity in journalism.
Plus: With newspapers shuttering, investigative journalism is endangered. Non-profit centers for investigative Journalism are trying to pick up some of the slack.
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