Tribute to Bill Morlin (1946-2021)

Karen Dorn Steele will give a special tribute to Bill Morlin (1946-2021), the revered investigative reporter who covered everything from neo-Nazis and white supremacists to crooks and corrupt politicians in a half-century at Spokane newspapers

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Wed., April 5, 2023

Karen Dorn Steele talks about investigative reporter Bill Morlin at the Murrow Symposium on Wednesday at the Compton Union Building in Pullman, Wash. Morlin, who died in 2021, worked for newspapers in Spokane for four decades.

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Clinical Associate Professor Benjamin Shors presents a plaque to Connie Morlin recognizing her late husband, Bill Morlin, as a 2023 inductee into the Murrow Hall of Journalistic Achievement on Wednesday at the Compton Union Building in Pullman. Bill Morlin was an investigative reporter who worked for newspapers in Spokane for four decades.

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Karen Dorn Steele talks about investigative reporter Bill Morlin at the Murrow Symposium on Wednesday at the Compton Union Building in Pullman, Wash. Morlin, who died in 2021, worked for newspapers in Spokane for four decades.

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A 1995 photo of members of a North Idaho militia taken by Dan McComb that accompanied a story by investigative reporter Bill Morlin is displayed during a talk about him at the Murrow Symposium on Wednesday at the Compton Union Building in Pullman, Wash. Morlin, who died in 2021, worked for newspapers in Spokane for four decades.

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Connie Morlin, right, talks with Alison Boggs at the Murrow Symposium on Wednesday at the Compton Union Building in Pullman, Wash. Morlin was attending a talk at the Murrow Symposium about her late husband, Bill Morlin, who worked for newspapers in Spokane for four decades.

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Journalists for The Spokesman-Review consult by the roadside near Naples, Idaho during the standoff between Randy Weaver and federal authorities in August of 1992. In this photo are, from left, reporter Bill Morlin (holding a two-way radio), freelance photographer Mason Marsh, reporter Kevin Keating (behind Marsh) and photographer Jesse Tinsley. For several days, media, protesters and neighbors staked out the roadblock which federal authorities used to keep people out of the area while they negotiated the surrender of Weaver. Not visible, but driving the Jeep at left, is reporter J. Todd Foster.

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