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Clear as Brown Water
"I'd been covering this mess of a water-board story for weeks. It was hugely technical," a reporter said.
Her first date
(Conversation with Mariecar, a reporter.)
“I’m at the Date Festival,” she says. “I don’t know what my story should be – I mean, what can you say about a Date Festival?”
Lacey Fosburgh, 1943-1993
Dear Lacey:
I thought of you the other day (think of you often) when a reporter was driving me nuts with her incessant self-doubt.
Orphans and Compassion
(Notes on a South Florida Sun-Sentinel series.)
The topic of Caribbean AIDS Orphans is either a reporter’s dream or a compassion-fatigue cesspool sure to make people run for the hills. That was the main hurdle when the hashing out of the story began.
