The Chauncey Bailey Project | Archive for 2022

Archive for 2022

Police arrest county official in stabbing of Las Vegas investigative reporter

The Chauncey Bailey Project has issued the following statement on the news that assassinated Las Vegas reporter Jeff German had written extensively about the public official arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder. “The murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German and the arrest of the county official suspected of killing him is […]

Statement on murder of reporter Jeff German in Las Vegas

The Chauncey Bailey Project has issued the following statement on the the tragic murder of Investigative Reporter Jeff German outside his home Saturday in Las Vegas. Las Vegas Review-Journal “We send our thoughts and condolences to the family of Jeff German and all of his colleagues at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and to […]

A journalist killed for his reporting found his life’s work through reading

By Thomas Peele The subscriber to the Hayward Daily Review used a racial slur to complain about the Black child delivering his newspaper. The circulation manager told the man that if he wanted to keep getting the paper, he should get used to his new carrier. Later, the manager pulled the tall, skinny paperboy aside […]

In tearful ceremony, Oakland street renamed for slain journalist Chauncey Bailey

Journalist Tom Peele and member of the Chauncey Bailey Project, speaks during the ceremonial unveiling of Chauncey Bailey Way. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) East Bay Times March 5, 2022 By Shomik Mukherjee | smukherjee@bayareanewsgroup.com | edited by Mary Fricker for chaunceybaileyproject.org. OAKLAND — Friends, family and former colleagues of slain local journalist Chauncey Bailey […]