Crossing the journalist-subject barrier

Alex Belth talks to Mark Warren about his stories, with Tom Junod, on a young war widow whom they helped get treatment for the cancer that was killing her: "Tom and I blew through every caution sign between journalist and subject. Those rules exist for a good reason, but they typically deal with not compromising journalism that’s about powerful people … In my view, they don’t typically apply when you’re talking about a war widow dying of cancer in southern Mississippi."

March 13, 2016

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