Thursday, March 23rd, 2006...6:38 am
Another New Blog
I wrote yesterday about C. J. Karamargin leaving the Arizona Daily Star. I neglected to mention another reporter that left, border beat reporter Michael Marizco. Marizco left the Star in December; he told me in an e-mail that he left to write a book (they couldn’t just give him a leave or sabatical for that?). I imagine that he had had the same frustrations that many other reporters who have left recently have had. The Star was willing to let Marizco go even though he had won awards (including one given by the corporation that owns the Star for a series on people who smuggle and exploit children) and is covering probably the most important ongoing story for this region of the country.
The local television stations have been giving some coverage of border issues, but it tends to give stories so sensationalistic as to be at best useless or at worst dangerous. A hardworking reporter for the area’s largest daily would have been a great counterweight to this. I suppose that the professionals that run the Star understand something about quality journalism that a humble amateur like me doesn’t.
Anyhow, Marizco has set up a blog called Border Reporter. He continues to do freelance work (such as this article in the Tucson Weekly) and it is worth checking out.
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