Speculative Journalism: The making of "The Death of Rachel Corrie"
17 September 2003
Mother Jones demonstrated how low it could set its standards for investigative journalism when it hired Newsweek reporter Joshua Hammer to surf the web and write a 7000-word feature story on Rachel Corrie and the International Solidarity Movement (“The Death of Rachel Corrie”, Sept/Oct 2003). Indeed fact-checking and verification was not a priority in the production of this article. Phan Nguyen reports. Read more about Speculative Journalism: The making of "The Death of Rachel Corrie"