The key role a local newspaper played in the trial over Ahmaud Arbery's murder

The first of the stories was published on the local newspaper’s website the day Ahmaud Arbery died. It was about three sentences long. Larry Hobbs, the crime beat reporter at the Brunswick News, remembers it well; after all, he wrote it. ...

Some locals in Glynn County, Georgia, where Arbery was killed, are critical of the way the paper has covered the killing in Satilla Shores, describing it as too credulous of the Glynn County Police and other local officials. But this fact remains: Hobbs’ reporting ultimately played a major role in getting larger news outlets — and eventually civil rights groups and state law-enforcement agencies — interested in digging into what had happened.

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