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J-school grad: did editor exploit me w/pubic shaving assignment?


It’s impossible to really know what was going on here since the Women’s eNews piece is written from the POV of the alleged victim.  And Alecia Warren, a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, isn’t sure if she was in fact a victim at all, a willing victim, or what.

The questions she enumerates in the column are good ones, but I wish there was more reporting available on her allegations and the editor’s side, as well as witnesses.

In any case, is a story that’s focused on how many women shave or don’t shave their pubic hair really what any editor should be giving a j-school intern, or any reporter for that matter?

Makes the stuff some of us bloggers write seem, well, downright like hard news.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:11 am November 19th, 2007 in Media, Women, Writing 

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2 Responses to “J-school grad: did editor exploit me w/pubic shaving assignment?”

  1. 1 Becky on November 20th, 2007 10:04 pm

    Yeah, that article left me uneasy. I’m still not sure what to think about it.

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on November 20th, 2007 10:36 pm

    I agree – leaves me a bit speechless. Now, one thing I should add – I did google the grad in question. She wrote a few stories that had gender/sexual issues. That’s fine, and it doesn’t excuse an editor’s inappropriate use of his position to get an intern to do something that perhaps she shouldn’t have been asked to do. But it seems that at a minimum, she may have had more of an interest in such stories than other reporters might have.

    For me, the question is, was it really news that had to be investigated? For an intern?

    I don’t know. Just not sure.

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