If you’re not willing to knock on a stranger’s door, and spend time listening deeply, you’re not a real journalist.
Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
I'm reminded of the Atlanta area reporterish who was too lazy to walk/drive a few blocks to get the story about Georgia's oldest resident (and the city's oldest), the granddaughter of enslaved people, after she died.
THIS by author Steven Thrasher who gets it. Calls for mergers and acquisitions can squish this where it exists in independent journalism: tread carefully.
David Rotenstein, Curator, Shrouded in Secrecy Archives
