Finishing Chauncey's Work:

[Brock Samson]

From AJR,   June/July 2008 

         The Oakland Project   
August/September preview>>

In an echo of the Arizona Project that investigated the murder of slain journalist Don Bolles in 1976, Bay Area news outlets, journalism schools and media groups have joined forces to complete the unfinished work of murdered Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey.

By Sherry Ricchiardi


(Excerpt)
"During the final hour of his life, Chauncey Bailey ate breakfast at McDonald's and bought a meal for a homeless man. He was on foot, heading toward his newsroom a few blocks away when he spotted his killer. The assassin wore a black ski mask and brandished a sawed-off shotgun."
                   (graphicly violent paragraph deleted)
  The thugs behind the August 2, 2007, murder of the editor of the Post News Group, a chain of San Francisco Bay Area weeklies, may have celebrated the easy kill, but not for long. They were wrong if they thought the Oakland attack would stop Bailey's investigation into a controversial local enterprise called Your Black Muslim Bakery.

Instead, the bold murder triggered an intense reaction. More than 24 Bay Area journalists from competing news outlets joined forces to complete the fallen editor's story. Area media groups and journalism schools participated in the effort as well.

   the complete article:
http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4581

[Lowprofile]

Wow. Powerful story Bro. Thanks for sharing. 

[Neal_J]

Man, Oakland's a pit. 

Glad I don't live there!~

Neal

[The70RT]

Man, Oakland's a pit. 

Glad I don't live there!~

Neal

Yep....you can tell by the low life Raider fans.