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RE: Morlin, Steele, Webster leaving SR/Huckleberries Online
Sam: Bill Morlin is an amazing investigative reporter, as is Karen Dorn
Steele and them not being 
at that paper is a severe, severe loss. Work I did last year exposing a local man lying about his
educational background and then working as a contractor, among other
things, earthquake-proofing places like the Hanford nuclear site is a
DIRECT result of Bill Morlin first getting the list of thousands of
people who purchased fake degrees from a Spokane diploma mill from
a source. His work on that story exposed people nationwide and led to the
investigation of Washington State Troopers who purchased fake degrees
and used them to get raises. His work on other stories had the same impact, most especially his work on the Aryan Nations in Idaho. Seriously, I geek out when I hear Bill Morlin’s name and I honestly couldn’t care less who knows it.
Question: Any local media person — from newspaper, radio or television — make you “geek out”?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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