Fall From Grace
“A giant headline: Serial Killer on the Loose? with a subhead of: Bodies of 16 Women Found in Capital Region Brent was assigned to help me by going through the list of sixteen names and writing a side piece with their names in chronological order starting with the first victim, Lydia Alexandra, who was found in 1988, to the most recent, Grace Cardinal.
And not only was our coverage a scoop, it made its own news. All of the local media outlets ran stories on it, using the information in the p...aper for their own story, but at the same time acknowledging that it had come from us. And the resulting blowback meant there were several follow-up stories, press conferences, and all the other fun things that reporters live for. Even though I had started the story, it had taken on a life of its own and all I had to do was keep riding it until it wore itself out. Every day for about a week I was writing something new related to it. Not of all of the stories were groundbreaking and some of them were just follow-ups on info broken by other media outlets—including a TV bit about how police had a list of sixty-three women who fit the profiles of the other victims and had been reported missing over the past fifteen years.MoreLess
And not only was our coverage a scoop, it made its own news. All of the local media outlets ran stories on it, using the information in the p...aper for their own story, but at the same time acknowledging that it had come from us. And the resulting blowback meant there were several follow-up stories, press conferences, and all the other fun things that reporters live for. Even though I had started the story, it had taken on a life of its own and all I had to do was keep riding it until it wore itself out. Every day for about a week I was writing something new related to it. Not of all of the stories were groundbreaking and some of them were just follow-ups on info broken by other media outlets—including a TV bit about how police had a list of sixty-three women who fit the profiles of the other victims and had been reported missing over the past fifteen years.MoreLess
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