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“Homeless people do die in the cold. If we only identify Lee’s death as tragic because he was a journalist who didn’t need to be there, then we will not have listened to his story.”


Journalism lecturer Alex Lockwood speaks of his admiration for Lee Halpin, who died while making a documentary about homelessness.


(Source: Guardian)

 

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