Sarah Koenig: Investigative Journalism

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In my listening of the Serial podcast I’ve learned that investigative journalism is a very hard, as well as interesting job. Throughout the podcast investigative journalist, Sarah Koenig, is trying to figure out whether Adnan Syed is guilty for the murder of Hae Min Lee. She does this by interviewing multiple people that were involved in the case in one way or another and also by reading through a vast amount of papers.
Sarah Koenig spent so much time reading over papers from the trial, police reports, notes from the detectives and Hae’s diary. When Sarah first met Rabia, sister of Adnan’s friend Saad and also the person that introduced Sarah to this case, she showed her a big stack of papers that Rabia had kept from Adnan’s trial. Sarah took
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