Journal education reporter moves on

Unless I missed it, Journal education reporter left without so much as a peep in print.  In a tweet to her followers, she indicates that she works now for UNM's Center for Ed Policy Research.

Hailey Heinz,  Board Member David Peercy and APS COO Brad Winter

She is but the latest in a line of education reporters who no longer do. Heinz distinguished herself in my mind as the only Journal reporter who flat out refused to listen to my side of the story, even when her professional responsibilities demanded that she do just that, link.

I have no idea why Heinz has left the Journal.  I would like to hope that it was because she found being part and parcel to covering up an ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS, personally revolting.

In my surmise, reporters come out of Journalism school aching to write some Pulitzer winning expose of something or another. It must be difficult to get out in the real world, to be sitting on the facts of a monumental scandal, and then being told to ignore them.

There is no reporter to whom I have spoken at any length, who couldn't see a story. Then they go back to the newsroom, someone says you're not going to write about that and I never hear from them again.

For example; the story about the cover up of corruption and felony criminal misconduct in the leadership of the APS Police Force.  All any reporter has to do to blow the thing wide open  is to ask for

1. the public records including the findings of the investigations, and then
2. report on APS' response. 

APS will not produce them because they include truths that will "leave no senior APS administrator left standing."  (That according to APS Modrall lawyer Art Melendres after hearing from Sam Bregman and his client disgraced APS Chief of Police Gil Lovato.)

It could not be simpler.

I blame Journal Managing Editor Kent Walz
and those of his ilk at KRQE, KOAT, and KOB TV.




photo Mark Bralley