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Case File · Detective · No. 081
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The Planted Byline
≈ 4 min
At 11 PM, editor-in-chief Nora Whitlock found a marked-up draft of tomorrow's front page slid into junior reporter Sam Okafor's desk drawer — a version quietly seeding a false quote into the harbor-cleanup story, initialed to look like Sam's handiwork. Sam swears he never touched that page. Someone on the floor is trying to pin a fabrication on him before the presses roll.
Subject
Sam Okafor
A first-year reporter, eager and overworked, framed as the author of a doctored front-page draft he says he never saw.
The suspects
- Renata Voss — Senior Political Correspondent
- Gil Tran — Night Copy Chief
- Priya Sundaram — Layout Artist
- Dale Marsh — Pressroom Foreman
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