The toughest aspect of being a journalist is maintaining the proper distance from the subjects of a story.
Sometimes, chucking aside your humanity and morphing into a version of Star Trek’s emotionless Mr. Spock isn’t possible, nor is it right.
Lisa Fenn, a former producer for ESPN learned that when she told the story of Leroy Sutton, a young man familiar to a lot of Akronites.
The Beacon Journal chronicled Sutton’s tale of being run over by a train and his subsequent rehabilitation. ESPN followed in 2009 with a piece on its newsmagazine Outside the Lines, telling the story of how Sutton and his wrestling teammate, Dartanyon Crockett developed a friendship.
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