“If it is not in the "what we know" column, we do not repeat it.”
Nora is the reason the Rumor / Reality box exists. She came to gossip from the dull end of journalism, fact-checking, and discovered that celebrity news was the one beat where almost nobody did it. She reads the court record, the label statement and the full interview before the viral clip, and she has a weakness for the phrase "according to a source close to". If a claim sits in the Reality column, Nora found where it came from. If it sits in the Rumor column, she tried and could not.
Beats
Rumor vs Reality · Transformations · Court records
Stories
12
Writing here since
2022
Off the record
Keeps a folder of "sources close to" who never materialised
