How a $1.50 coffee became a priceless lesson in ethical journalismThe Spinoff Daily, Thursday September 26
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“It started with a message in our work Slack in March of this year: a screenshot of a post from a Facebook group, shared by a homeless man promoting his burgeoning coffee business. Out of a shopping trolley on Auckland’s Queen Street using instant coffee, Jon Low – better known as Patchy – was building a feel-good coffee empire with cups at $1.50 a pop. Some news stories are difficult to pitch, a few are almost impossible, and others – like Patchy’s – show their news value straight away. The editors at Stuff, where I worked as a reporter, wanted a review of the cheap coffee brewed by a man living rough in one of Aotearoa’s most expensive cities (colourful food reviews and cost-of-living bites come under Stuff’s guaranteed bangers list, next to the “neighbours at war” and scandalous influencer stories). As the reporter responsible for a few of Stuff’s out-the-gate offerings, I put my hand up to write it.”
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