Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldosn For 03OCT2022

Gabby Petito One Year Later: News Media Coverage Of Missing Persons w/ Journalist Molly McCluskey

Andrew Donaldson
2 min readOct 3, 2022

Your Heard Tell Show for Monday, October the 3rd, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the times we live by reviewing the Gabby Petito story from one year ago, the news media coverage, the blowback over which missing persons do/do not get covered, and how covering and reporting on missing persons stories really works in the mordern media environment with investigative journalist Molly McCluskey, excerpted from the Oct 2021 episode of Heard Tell Podcast.

Read Molly McCluskey’s story on missing persons in the Crow Nation here: https://t.co/XS9CtGSx50?amp=1

From The Original Episode:

The Gabby Petito story is the latest true crime missing person story to explode across media, but something interesting happened: the American public started asking questions about why the Gabby Petito story got coverage that some other missing person stories did not. Media outlets responded by running stories along the lines of “What about these other stories” which brought another backlash of folks

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Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media