The second piece ran on a Tuesday, which Claire Ashworth had not told me was coming.
I discovered this distinction, the lack of warning, as I was reading the article on my phone at 7:22 in the morning, standing at the nurses’ station waiting for a chart, and the distinction was important because it told me something about the source of the new material. The first piece had been hers, researched and shaped and sent to me for accuracy review. This one had the texture of a different process, harder edges, information that did not have the careful calibration of a journalist who had built a relationship with her subject. Someone had given her this material and the material had not come from her original research.
The headline: *De Luca Empire’s Shadow Network: A Medical Professional’s Proxim
