In the past year the Jeffrey Epstein case was catapulted onto the national news radar by one newspaper, the Miami Herald, and by one reporter in particular,
Julie K. Brown. The paper's
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As soon as The Daily Beast broke the news that Epstein had been arrested on Saturday evening, fellow journalists and other observers credited Brown and thanked her for the tenacious investigation.
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True to form, she sought to shift the spotlight, away from her own work and toward her subjects. "The REAL HEROES HERE were the courageous victims that faced their fears and told their stories," she tweeted Sunday.
"It takes a lot of courage, understandably," Brown said. "This happened to them a long time ago, and many of them feel ashamed."
She also discussed her reporting process. "What I tried to do, since the story ran and got all that attention, was to keep hounding away at the story. I didn't give up on it," she said. "You know, it's sometimes easy to walk away and just let things happen. But I just felt that I had to keep pursuing it, and not let the powers-that-be, so to speak, the law enforcement people, the people in government, forget that these women were out there. And they're talking and they want to tell their story and they want justice."
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