Abstract
“The first commandment of investigative reporting is this: get the record.” Paul Williams, Investigative Reporting and Editing (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978)
“My college didn't prepare me for the kind of experience I had when I walked into that courthouse on the first day. Nobody prepared me to read a budget that was six inches thick. Nobody taught me to read financial reports or decipher an environmental impact statement.” Reporter at Conference on Reporting Local Government, St. Petersburg, Fla., Feb. 4, 1978. (From Gannett Foundation videotape).
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