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Commentary: Chauncey Bailey Project

maryfricker — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:07:34 +0000

COMMENTARY - The idea for the project started with a message to this column from freelance journalist Kenneth J. Cooper and took off from there.

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Commentary: Chauncey Bailey murder could have been avoided

maryfricker — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:14:59 +0000

COMMENTARY: Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage today after learning that a delay in an Oakland police raid on Your Black Muslim Bakery could have cost Chauncey Bailey his life.

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Commentary: Dellums Urges Expansion of Bailey Investigation

maryfricker — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:01:28 +0000

COMMENTARY - Oakland, Calif., Mayor Ron Dellums called for an expansion of the state investigation into the Police Department's handling of journalist Chauncey Bailey's slaying to include a newly reported delay in the raid of Your Black Muslim Bakery, an operation Bailey was investigating, Thomas Peele and Bob Butler reported for the Chauncey Bailey Project.

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Commentary: Oakland’s top badges need to explain themselves

maryfricker — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:51:08 +0000

For the past 16 months, Oakland police officials have led us to believe that Chauncey Bailey's murder was just a question of unfortunate timing. But now, The Chauncey Bailey Project — a coalition of news organizations that has done a far better job of investigating the journalist's killing than the Police Department — has uncovered new information suggesting police officials have been less than forthright.

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Commentary: Overseas Press Club calls for re-opening of Chauncey Bailey murder investigation

maryfricker — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:43:38 +0000

COMMENTARY - It is rare that The Overseas Press Club of America finds it necessary to speak out for freedom of the press in the United States. But the case of Chauncey Bailey, murdered editor of the Oakland Post, demands that we join the voices of so many others in calling for a fresh investigation of his murder.

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Commentary: Oakland Police Deny Chauncey Bailey Probe Is Flawed

maryfricker — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:56:19 +0000

COMMENTARY - "Police say the probe of journalist Chauncey Bailey’s 2007 killing isn’t flawed and that the case’s lead detective, Sgt. Derwin Longmire, didn’t interfere in other felony cases involving its key suspect, even as an internal affairs investigation of him continues," Thomas Peele, Bob Butler and Mary Fricker reported Monday for the Chauncey Bailey Project.

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Commentary: Barack Obama and Chauncey Bailey

maryfricker — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:37:06 +0000

COMMENTARY – A confluence of thoughts hit me Monday: The Chauncey Bailey Project, the Oakland Tribune, the Pulitzer Prize, Oakland's disturbing crime situation, Barack Obama, Paul Cobb, and the last time I saw Chauncey Bailey, one week before his killing. -Dave Newhouse, Bay Area News Group

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Commentary: Bailey slaying to be investigated anew

maryfricker — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:50:10 +0000

COMMENTARY -- The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the decision by California authorities to undertake additional investigations into the August 2007 murder of U.S. editor Chauncey Bailey. The move follows a lengthy report by a consortium of San Francisco Bay-area news organizations and journalists known as the Chauncey Bailey Project. In an October 25 report, the group outlined alleged police irregularities in the investigation; other questions were raised earlier this year by the CBS News program "60 Minutes."

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Commentary: Bailey case investigation an utter mess

maryfricker — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:34:11 +0000

COMMENTARY - For all these months, Oakland police have had in their possession key pieces of evidence that could help prove that Chauncey Bailey's killing was a conspiracy and not the work of a lone gunman. What have they done with this important information? Nothing. -Tammerlin Drummond, Bay Area News Group

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Commentary: Recognition of Bailey case bungling, finally

maryfricker — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:28:46 +0000

COMMENTARY - FINALLY, THERE IS some official recognition that the Oakland Police Department has bungled the yearlong investigation of the murder of journalist Chauncey Bailey.

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