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American Journalism Review,  November, 2000  by Shepard, Alicia C.

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The Philadelphia Daily News is a gritty tabloid with great sports coverage, attitude-laden headlines and a perfect feel for the tough town it calls home. But Editor Zack Stalberg wants more: He wants the paper to be a civic crusader.

The tip came in the middle of the day in June. A dead body on Philadelphia's Main Line. No name was mentioned. But a corpse in the legendary blue-blood suburbs is likely to be a good story. Reporter Kitty Caparella was dispatched to pry information from one of the area's least-cooperative police departments.

Soon she picked up the names ...

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