How ABC broke the Foley scandal

"This is about how Brian Ross paired his extensive reporting experience with a new publishing platform to break a story that others chose to pass over," writes Pat Walters.

Plus listen to Ross discuss breaking the news on his blog, The Blotter.

On Sept. 28, 2006, Ross ran a 356-word story on The Blotter reporting that Foley had sent e-mails to a page in 2004 that made the 16-year-old uncomfortable enough to forward them to the office of his own congressman.

"One of the reasons we established [The Blotter] was to handle stories that really didn't have the heft at that time to warrant 'The World News' at 6:30, which essentially is our front page," Ross said. "And not every story is a front page-story."

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