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Luncheon Forum: Successful Investigative Journalism I Jeff Gottlieb
Pacifica InstituteSometimes great investigative stories aren’t the result of an ingenious hunch. Sometimes they are the result a relatively innocuous question, as was the case for Jeff Gottlieb, who explained on Thursday at Pacifica Institute in Los Angeles, how he and fellow reporter, Ruben Vives, discovered and broke the story of the Bell City scandal, which led to the downfall of city administrator Robert Rizzo and other city officials. What directed the attention of these Los Angeles Times reporters to the seemingly invisible city of Bell in June of 2010, Gottlieb said was an article Vives was writing aboutRead moreShow less
Sometimes great investigative stories aren’t the result of an ingenious hunch. Sometimes they are the result a relatively innocuous question, as was the case for Jeff Gottlieb, who explained on Thursday at Pacifica Institute in Los Angeles, how he and fellow reporter, Ruben Vives, discovered and broke the story of the Bell City scandal, which led to the downfall of city administrator Robert Rizzo and other city officials.
What directed the attention of these Los Angeles Times reporters to the seemingly invisible city of Bell in June of 2010, Gottlieb said was an article Vives was writing about the neighboring city of Maywood that had immersed itself into financial troubles.
What directed the attention of these Los Angeles Times reporters to the seemingly invisible city of Bell in June of 2010, Gottlieb said was an article Vives was writing about the neighboring city of Maywood that had immersed itself into financial troubles.
