Episode 47: Reporter’s notebook dump with Sean Robinson

On this episode, we picked veteran TNT reporter Sean Robinson’s brain about his nearly 20 years at The News Tribune, and talked about some of his greatest investigative stories and the legacies they leave behind in Pierce County. Sean left the paper in March, and this was a reporter’s notebook dump mixed with some wistful pontificating on the current and future state of local journalism.

We also drank beers and ate cookies.

This is a long episode, but a good one. Don’t miss the first 20 minutes, when Sean recalls in vivid detail some pivotal events in the days and weeks leading up to the murder-suicide involving Tacoma Police Chief David Brame and his wife Crystal Judson.