My second front page story

I spent yesterday in the field. There was a triple fatal car crash outside of Spokane in Mead, Wash. and I took a company car to go get some more information on the accident from any police remaining on the scene. What I received, instead, was enough personal information to write a real good article about who these poor kids who died. The photojournalism by Liz Kishimoto is fantastic.

I find one of the hardest things about being a journalist is striking the balance between being empathic and being driven to get the story. More...

In this case when I reached the site of the crash there was an makeshift funeral going on. The women were all extremely distraught and speaking Russian. There is a fine line between being driven and being a jerk.

At any rate Lyudmylda eventually was the only one left and finally called me over, the first thing she said was the first quote in the story.
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