Shapira to Source: 'Wait! Please Don't Hang up, Please Don't Hang up, You Still There?'
WaPo’s “Story Lab” was a lesson in persistence today from reporter Ian Shapira.
The story he was working on was emotionally tricky; he had to find just the right methods to get the story. Who among us hasn’t begged into the phone, Please don’t hang up!?
Shapira first reached out on Facebook to the recent Pentagon shooter Patrick Bedell’s youngest brother, Jeffrey, former deputy attorney general for California and now a financial adviser in Sacramento:
Hi Jeffrey,
My name is Ian Shapira and I’m a staff writer at The Washington Post.
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