murder of Chauncey Bailey

Investigating the Murder of Journalist Chauncey Bailey

Peter Schurmann

On Aug. 2, 2007, veteran journalist Chauncey Bailey was murdered in Oakland, Calif., for a story he was working on about Your Black Muslim Bakery, a local business that fronted for an organized crime operation. Bailey’s murder was the first assassination of a journalist over a domestic story in the United States since 1976. Award-winning investigative reporter and author Thomas Peele spoke with New America Media about his work on the Chauncey Bailey Project -- a collaboration of journalists that formed to finish the work Bailey was doing -- and his new book, Killing the Messenger. 

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