How Al Jazeera America Reported The Flint Water Crisis - A Year Ago

A year ago this week, Al Jazeera's Bisi Onile-Ere sought answers from Flint authorities about concerns over residents' water.

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Former Chicago Tribune editor James Warren writes for the Poynter Institute, a media training organization, that the national media blew the Flint story - but leaves out Al Jazeera.

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AdWeek, meanwhile, reports that Al Jazeera got the story because Onile-Ere previously covered Flint for five years.

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Al Jazeera hired Onile-Ere, she said in 2013, "because of my expertise in Detroit."

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For a year Al Jazeera America's Detroit team reported on #FlintWaterCrisis as it unfolded. @ajam @BisiOnile_Ere https://t.co/q9LbWfeCHT

— Ash-har Quraishi (@ashhar_quraishi) January 23, 2016

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