Report: Newsday Reporters Reassigned as Pol Exerts Pressure
Self-proclaimed corrector of “conservative misinformation” Media Matters announced today that they’d picked up veteran investigative journalist Joe Strupp, and Strupp has hit the ground running. On his first day, he’s published a story about one Long Island politician’s influence at Newsday. A couple Newsday reporters may have been reassigned thanks to pressure from a Long Island politician they had been covering, Strupp reports.
The Newsday pair, Bart Jones and Chau Lam, were taken off their beats in the wake of complaints by Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, Strupp says, citing source connected to the newspaper.
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