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Article: Soul searching in San Jose. (attempts by the San Jose Mercury News to bring closure to the controversy generated by the "Dark Alliance" series in August, 1996)
- Article from:
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
- Author:
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The events that preceded the publication of the "Dark Alliance" series in the San Jose Mercury News last August and that led up to executive editor Jerry Ceppos's unusual mea culpa column about it this May have the elements of a pretty good newspaper movie. There is the aggressive lone-wolf investigative reporter who may or may not have fallen down a reportorial rabbit hole; the young Latina city editor, newly promoted and protective of her star reporter; the thoughtful executive editor struggling with his conscience as parts of a huge "holy shit!" story seem to unravel before his eyes; the racial and social undertones of newsroom politics; plus tales of personal ...
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