Crossing a line in pursuit of a story

Should a reporter breaks his employer's rules if it's the only way to get the story? Should he interview a patient who keeps mistaking the reporter for the doctor? Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post raised those questions in the context of personal experience during the recent Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the University of North Texas. From Nieman Storyboard.

August 14, 2011

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