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Business Insider reporter disses Mobile, gets invited to Alabama city

Darwin Singleton of Your15TV in Mobile, Ala., reports how Business Insider reporter Julie Zeveloff, who recently wrote an article naming the Alabama city as the third worst in the country, has accepted an invitation to visit.

Singleton writes, “So Stimpson and staff started a campaign within their campaign, aimed, not at Mobile voters, but directly at… Julie Zeveloff.

“‘We created a website and then we just started inundating her with messages through Twitter and Facebook,’ he said. ‘And we had some signs made about the size of a campaign yard sign that said, Julie, wish you were here!’

“To Stimpson’s surprise and delight, Julie has accepted his invitation and will be arriving in the nation’s third most miserable city on Thursday.

“Reached in New York by phone, Julie Zeveloff  said she’s excited about her upcoming visit.

“She said she’s getting a lot of e-mails from Mobilians telling her places to eat and sight to see as she explores the less miserable side of Mobile.”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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