HeyJaredHOW TRUE: Stories & Strategies of Nailing Stuff Down
Journalists and other fact-finders share what it takes to get at the truth, including mistakes yielding their own lessons. Approaches and tips useful on the job and in everyday life.
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60 years later: 37 showed up. At least 36 couldn’t. (opens the original)
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As we made our way into New London’s Lighthouse Inn, classmate Harry White greeted us with a rollicking set of Beethoven and Buffy Sainte-Marie on the lobby piano.Judy VanHove was ready with the name tags, enabling some furtive, mid-hug ID checks. In the reception area, I spotted Tom Esposito, who said he got a haircut and dropped a few pounds for the occasion. Tom was deep in conversation with our long-ago faculty advisor, Mike Doyle, “86 going on 87,” as he put it.Just behind them, Liz Warnken
What they asked me in the jury box: How I was paid as a teenage caddy. A mistake I made as an editor. Tensions in my family. (opens the original)
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Like a lot of journalists, I’d never served on a jury.Even though journalists have never been officially barred from serving, I’ve heard from many colleagues that they were excused as soon as they revealed their line of work during voir dire.I’d never even made it that far. This time was different.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OHcq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fim
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