Investigative Reporting class produces extensive work on new website

By Julie Pawlikowski, second year graduate assistant in the Media Management program

Seven Duquesne Media students enrolled in Professor Margaret Patterson’s Investigative Reporting class in the spring 2017 semester explored the dynamics of investigative reporting and focused on the criminal justice issues involved in the mandatory life sentences of life without parole of 37 boys in Pennsylvania’s adult prison. These students set out to tell some of their stores and published their work on their new website.  Senior multiplatform journalist major Emalee Sekely is the editor of the website and wrote about Ronald Fairiror, whose act of murder at the age of 17 received him a life sentence in prison. To read her article and to check out the website, click here.