Patch Reporter Keeps Very Big Journalist Secret
Long before this week’s shocking headlines about the illegal immigrant status of Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Jose Antonio Vargas (pictured), a group of Northern California students heard his impromptu confession.
It happened on May 11th, in a Mountain View High School classroom, following the reporter’s breakfast keynote. What’s arguably most remarkable about the whole thing is that even though one of the people in the class, 18-year-old William Beare, is a Patch contributor, he quietly sat on the story… for six weeks!
With the cat out of the bag, Patch Mountain View local editor Claudia Cruz is now able to recount the circumstances of the surprise Q&A admission by Vargas, who was once editor of the high school’s Oracle newspaper.
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