Notebook: Writing in the Crosshairs
by Ann Kjellberg, editor
United States Capital, January 6, 2021
On September 3, Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German was found stabbed to death outside his house in Las Vegas. Four days later, Clark County public administrator Robert Telles was arrested in connection with the crime. German’s critical coverage of Telles’s job performance was credited locally with contributing to Telles’s decisive loss in a primary in June mounted by a staff member from the office where German had reported on his misconduct.
