Like her or hate her, News & Record columnist Lorraine Ahern inks her final column today before heading back to the newsroom full-time as an investigative reporter. Ahern calls it a promotion.Ahern:
As of today, March 1, City Editor Teresa Prout has promoted me back to the newsroom, where my job will be investigative reporter.
Along with Taft Wireback, whose tobacco reporting reached the semi-final rounds of Pulitzer Prize judging for the News & Record in 1992, and Jason Hardin, N.C. Press Association 2008 feature writing award winner, the enterprise team reports to my longtime boss, Betsi Robinson, the veteran investigative-projects writer who came to Greensboro from the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel newspapers.
All of us are stoked at the chance to rededicate ourselves to watchdog journalism, the core of what we do.***********************
Watchdog journalism? I thought the Rhino and the YES! Weekly had that department covered.
As of late, Ahern has become a lightning rod among local bloggers who continue to paint the N&R for their "nonobjective coverage" of the police scandals down at City Hall.
See the various comments from Guarino, both today and recently:
Excuse me? Lorraine Ahern 1st place for serious columns? surely, you jest. If the N.C. Press Association has determined that the News-Record has the most general excellence and Lorraine Ahern is a winner for serious columns, then journalism in this state has surely died.
... as if she didn't do enough damage as a columnist! Heaven, help us all!
I believe this will be a very short career change. Last time I checked an investigative reporter has to report the truth.
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E.C. :)
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I think that Lorraine Ahearn being "promoted" to investigative journalist at the News & Record, was the editors way of saying, "take this," to the bloggers in Greensboro.
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