Episode 07: Ben Schmitt, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Deputy Managing Editor
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Ben Schmitt, Deputy Manager Editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in this episode of Flack Talk discusses:
- covering “the worst antisemitic attack in U.S. history,”
- presidential elections in New Hampshire,
- his Emmy-winning story about a contract killer who enjoyed walking his poodle in his suburban neighborhood.
- how famed sports journalist and author Jemele Hill gave him essential advice about diversifying his newsroom at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and
- what it was like working on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team who covered Detroit’s former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
About the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Documentary About Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting
Vincent Smothers, the hitman with a poodle (Detroit Free Press Archive)
Details of the Pulitzer Prize project Ben Schmitt worked on in Detroit
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