Some Great Journalism in Stetson’s Reporter!
I’d just like to point out some great journalism in Stetson’s Reporter in a story about Public Safety and a sexual harassment complaint. Not coincedentally, it was done by me.
This was a sort of difficult story because the newsworthy thing was that Public Safety denied these allegations, but most of the reporting involved the actual incident itself. I think I manage to use both of them in the lede: “Stetson’s administration denied claims of sexual harassment after two Public Safety officers allegedly keyed into a room where two students were sleeping in only their underwear.”
Since I need to transition to the meat of the story here instead of focusing on Public Safety’s denial, I got a really good quote that let’s me do that: “Nothing was done that was wrong,” said Duane Knecht, Associate Vice President for Facilities Management. “I believe that the officers did what was right, and I do not believe they should have done anything differently.”
I like all the quotes in this story, particularly this one: Knecht said that the officers responded to a loud female voice within the room and that the situation was Keys’s fault because she was violating fraternity visiting hours. “Choosing to ignore University policy was the driving force behind the situation,” he said in an email. (Note: I didn’t actually do all the reporting for this, but I wrote the whole story).
So, I guess what I’m trying to say is that I actually did learn something from this class. I hope this makes up for the embarassingly few blog posts I did.
