Article from The Guardian by Andrew Gumbel, 8/17/24

Headline “Journalist Jeff German was stabbed to death. Las Vegas watches as the accused politician goes on trial”

Sub-head: “German had written about workplace harassment by Robert Telles, a county lawyer, before he was killed”

“Two months after German’s death, his colleagues at the Review Journal retrieved his notes and contacted his sources and fleshed out a long story about . . . ” the alleged murderer.

“Part of the investigative team’s goal was to pay homage to their fallen colleague in the language he understood best: old-fashioned, muck-raking journalism. ‘All we did after Jeff was killed was work on the investigation and deal with our trauma and grief,’ Prast said.

“In a precarious news business, however, in which investigations are expensive and newsroom budgets strapped, the Review-Journal has gone through two years of upheaval, leaving only one of German’s colleagues still at the paper.”

The full story:  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/17/jeff-german-las-vegas-journalist-murder-trial