Scott Schwebke

Crime and Breaking News Reporter, Standard-Examiner

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Crime, breaking news reporter for Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner. Have worked for newspapers in Va, N.C.,Colo. Winner of 2 dozen journalism awards. Beatles fan.

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Awards from N.C., Colo., Utah press associations, the AP, SPJ, and Press Club of Dallas
:Third Place-Spot News, Utah Press Association (2010), First Place-Best News Story, Utah Press Association (2008),Golden Eyeshade Award - Chosen by editors as the paper's top reporter, Standard-Examiner (2007), First Place- Investigative Reporting, Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters (2005), Katie Award,First Place - Feature Writing (Six State Region), Press Club of Dallas (2004) Service to the First Amendment, Colorado Press Association (2003) First Place -News Feature, Society of Professional Journalists (2000) Third Place - Single Story, Society of Professional Journalists (2000) First Place - Best Sustained Coverage,Colorado Press Association(1999) Third Place - Best Sustained Coverage,Colorado Press Association(1999) Second Place - Best Business Story, Colorado Press Association (1998) O. Henry Award - North Carolina Associated Press News Council (1997) First Place - News Feature Writing,North Carolina Press Association(1997) Third Place-News Feature Writing,North Carolina Press Association(1996) First Place - Spot News Reporting, North Carolina Press Association(1995

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What does it mean to be a journalist?
It means having a front row seat to events that are important to readers and using shoe leather, grit and determination to get to the truth.
Who do you wish followed you?
Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Rick Bragg and the two remaining Beatles.

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RT @romenesko: A reporter named Fears covers bug phobia for the Washington Post. ("It's great on so many levels.") bit.ly/18WboBr

‘Great on so many levels’: A reporter named Fears covers bug phobia

jimromenesko.com — Romenesko reader and Alexandria Times executive editor Derrick Perkins writes: "Check out the last name of the gentleman who wrote a great, entertaining piece on the local bug-phobic population. It's great on so many levels, enough so that I'm wondering if it was arranged."
RT @romenesko: ESPN pink-slips 100s: "We were told the layoffs are tied to the profit margin ESPN needs to meet." deadsp.in/119lFsf

Source: ESPN Laying Off Hundreds

deadspin.com — ESPN is laying off a portion of its staff today, a network spokesman confirms to us. How many? ESPN won't say. A tipster told us earlier today that it would be more than 400 staffers. A source at ESPN said that number is a little high, but it appears to be in the hundreds.
RT @AP: Chemical Safety Board says ATF, Texas fire marshal blocking its probe of fatal plant explosion: apne.ws/12L2ymG - VW

Safety Board: ATF blocking plant blast probe

bigstory.ap.org — WACO, Texas (AP) - Federal agents and the state fire marshal have effectively barred a federal safety panel from the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others, hampering its investigation, the panel's chairman said.In a May 17 letter to Sen.
RT @rsylvester: U.S. newspapers: please send your unused desks & chairs to OC Register. They've been hiring talent you cut & are running o…

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Fox News Reporter May Face Criminal Charges for Reporting on the CIA

theatlanticwire.com — The government will use any and all information at its disposal to find journalist sources, as shown in The Washington Post's report this morning on a Department of Justice investigation into Fox News chief correspondent James Rosen, who may face criminal charges for reporting government secrets.

Obama administration spied on Fox News reporter James Rosen: Report

news.yahoo.com — The Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of the State Department, and seizing two days of Rosen's personal emails, the Washington Post reported Monday.
RT @josephcurl: ... says only a few in WH know that "something" -- "It's been deep sixed, like Osama bin Laden." Will there be a Fifth Shoe…
RT @josephcurl: CIA source says Fox News scandal the "4th Shoe"; says it goes much deeper; says WH also sitting on "something" that has top…
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