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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Reporter arrested for testing school soil

A journalist with The Record, a paper in New Jersey USA, was arrested while accompanying a lab technician who was taking soil samples at a school, which was closed last week after pesticide contamination was found on its grounds. The reporter, Michael Gartland, and the technician now face trespassing charges. It was Gartland who broke the story about the tainted soil. Frank Burgos, managing editor of The Record, said his reporter was engaged in a "journalistic duty" to pursue the truth. (Via )

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