Lessons for Reporters from a Radio Prank: A Talk with UGA Journalism Professor David Hazinski

In the last week of February, 2014, an Atlanta radio station staged a prank which fooled most of the city’s newsrooms–and some international networks, too.  The ruse was built around a fictional Buckhead neighborhood group, which staged a protest of pop star Justin Bieber’s possible purchase of a home in Buckhead.  For a look at how many news people could be fooled by a rock station’s morning crew, WABE’s Denis O’Hayer spoke with David Hazinski, a former NBC correspondent who is now a professor at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism.