This is not going to end well

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/olivia-wilde-jon-hamm-richard-jewell-clint-eastwood-1203245570/

Jon Hamm will play an FBI agent and Olivia Wilde will play real-life Atlanta-Journal Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs, who died in 2001.

In her heyday, Scruggs was a hard-drinking, tough-talking police reporter who wasn’t afraid of anything.

Doug Monroe
REQUIEM FOR A REPORTER
Atlanta Magazine, July, 2003

I was working in the AJC newsroom during the events and can testify that Scruggs was a force of nature. I don’t think I ever heard her speak without dropping multiple expletives.

Read Doug Monroe’s article in the Atlanta Magazine for a glimpse of her personality.

With Clint Eastwood at the helm of this picture, I can’t image that Scruggs or the AJC is going to come out looking very good. It will, however, be interesting how the AJC newsroom will be recreated.

Congrats to Reporter Newspapers!

Reporter Newspapers won 15 awards — including eight first-place honors in its division — in the Georgia Press Association’s 2019 Better Newspaper Contest, whose winners were announced May 31. Read all about it.