Complete this exercise offline and then either e-mail or hand the exercise in to your instructor.
A reporter is working on an investigative project about conditions in a state-run nursing home for the poor. The reporter visualizes that the project will take three months and will be presented to readers as a multipart series with photographs and graphics. The reporter is aware that such an ambitious project might win the public service award in the state newspaper contest at the end of the year. However, when the reporter takes a guided tour of the nursing home, he is profoundly affected by the unsanitary conditions and the indifferent treatment that the patients must endure. At the end of the day, the reporter concludes that he cannot wait three months to try to bring about reforms at the nursing home. In his opinion the governor would do something if she knew about the situation the reporter has seen. What should the reporter do?
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