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Tag: consumer news

Posted on November 19, 2020

A story 12 years in the telling

Reporter John Hill explains how he got the story about spinal decompression devices. In almost three decades as a reporter, I’ve written only two stories that were never published. In the language of the newsroom, they got spiked. The term, from what I understand, comes from the days when editors who read a story that …

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