Sunday, September 29, 2019

Localizing A Big National Story: 20-Year ASU Journalist Nails Story about Executive Director of The McCain Institute in Washington DC

Andrew Howard, a managing editor of The State Press, an Arizona State University  student newspaper, scooped that Kurt Volker — executive director of the McCain Institute, a think tank in Washington that is run by Arizona State had stepped down as the State Department's special envoy for Ukraine in second-hands transcripts of phone calls.
It all goes round-and-round-and all around again!
Volker was embarrassed: "Special Envoy" for John McCain's Nemesis
Who wants to get caught up in that Trump Tabloid-Trash?

When the story went online, Howard was working in the newsroom of the big Phoenix paper, the Arizona Republic, where he's an intern.
"I briefly said out loud: 'Sorry about that,' " he recalled.
"They were incredibly nice about it. It was sort of a funny moment."
Go deeper: Student journalists are breaking big stories 

Believe it or not > This is severa degrees above the daily "normal" for summer temperatures...remainder of the week a degree or two warmer :)

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