With A Canoe and A Camera, AP Journalists Told Story of Coal Ash Spill

By: Kristen Hare | Poynter

After a long day of reporting, Michael Biesecker sat by himself at a table at Outback Steakhouse in Danville, Va.

“And they brought me a big glass of water,” said Biesecker, a reporter with the Associated Press, in a phone interview with Poynter. “And I knew the water was drawn and treated from the river, and everyone around me was drinking that water.”