2013 in Review: Remembering Judy Probert

(From August 20, 2013)

In the 36 years since I first entered the world of journalism,  I have met hard-nosed reporters who will stop at nothing, the kind of people who would throw their mother under a bus if it meant landing the big story.

When elected officials saw these reporters coming, they told their secretaries to put out the word they were going to be out of the office the rest of the day.

These were reporters who always landed their stories, but the most feared reporter I ever had the pleasure of meeting was nothing like these fearsome practitioners of investigative journalism.

When city and school officials wanted to keep something out of the public eye, they would have almost preferred to deal with one of the traditional take-no-prisoners reporters and not the sweet, grandmotherly representative of the working press who was a staple of Golden City journalism for decades.