See update below. It’s easy to underappreciate the Public Information Officer. When they do their jobs well, they make their bosses look good and draw no attention to themselves. But when a PIO screws up, it’s like when a surgeon screws up. Somebody gets hurt, and a lot of people notice. PIOs inherently have the [...]
Archive for the ‘saltzman wendy’ Category
12 Nov
Tough universe
By Russ Jamieson Whew. That’ll teach me to doze off during CSI:NY. I’ve lived in Atlanta forever. I’m an ex-WAGA reporter, ex-CNN freelance correspondent. I’ve learned to expect certain things from my local news. I woke up from my nap to see WGCL’s 11pm newscast… which I probably hadn’t watched in years. It felt as [...]
3 Aug
Same story, different day
Some jaws undoubtedly dropped at WGCL late last month when WAGA’s I-Team produced an investigation on a used car dealership that sold cars with histories of accidents. Dana Fowle’s two-parter showed that the dealership failed to disclose to customers the fact that its used cars had sustained significant damage in accidents. The jaws dropped because [...]
23 Jul
Shallow dip
Show of hands: How many of you know somebody who served twenty years in the military and is collecting the pension s/he earned? Now, how many of those military folk are earning a paycheck at another job, while collecting the military pension? Question: Is that a bad thing, or a good thing? If you’re WGCL, [...]
12 Jun
Duck, and cover up
There are many things to like about Wendy Saltzman’s WGCL series on wasteful spending in the Fulton County school system. First, the money is substantial. Saltzman convincingly reports that Fulton’s school system rigged its bidding process so that Office Depot could land a contract for school supplies. Office Depot’s bid was nearly $1.6 million higher [...]
19 May
Right story, wrong question
Note: This was originally written last week as part of the post that became “Bigmouth Strikes Again.” It originally praised WGCL’s Wendy Saltzman for her work on the take-home vehicles story, while quibbling with another piece she produced on Congressional travel. We edited the post after we figured out that WXIA had also produced the [...]
14 May
Bigmouth strikes again
Wendy Saltzman has been a busy woman. Like most reporters in understaffed shops, she’s probably overworked. And she solely bears the on-air burden of giving WGCL badly needed credibility in classic, research-based investigative reporting (as distinguished from, say, consumer reporting or bare-hands-on-food-in-restaurants exposés). Sometime over the winter, it appears Saltzman began work on a story [...]
3 Feb
Water, water everywhere
We’re overdue to deliver a slow but sincere one-man round of applause for Adam Murphy. The WGCL reporter has taken more than his share of abuse on this site for the still-unfortunate Restaurant Report Card. But maybe that franchise, and Murphy’s tough-guy role in it, has steeled him for the worthy work he’s done in [...]
11 Dec
City liquidity
You probably didn’t see what may be the most relevant TV investigative report of 2008. It aired this week on WGCL, showing that the city of Atlanta’s money woes are, in part, due to its own failure to collect money owed to the city. Wendy Saltzman reported that the city is owed more than $30 [...]
9 Nov
A tale of two garbagemen
Ouch. That pain is from a deep bite wound inflicted in the gluteal region of WGCL’s investigative unit. Turns out, WGCL’s Wendy Saltzman was onto something when she pursued her ill-fated investigation into overtime at Atlanta’s sanitation department. Saltzman viewed city records showing that sanitation workers racked up gobs of overtime. Saltzman had a tipster [...]
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