Death Knock

At The Herald, a left-leaning broadsheet struggling to adapt to the age of digital news, Deputy News Editor Holly Evans is tasked with giving Wendy Bolt, a controversial right-wing commentator and media personality, a tour of the office. Holly is itching to get back to a story lead she is following: the death of a young woman, Andrea Reed, following a hit and run by a police car. When she learns that the nearby corner shop has already given its CCTV footage of the accident to The Post, a thriving populist tabloid that occupies a building in the same square as the Herald, Holly approaches Editor Duncan Allen and asks for the tapes. Unfortunately, Duncan still remembers an uncomplimentary article Holly once wrote about him. At The Post, Oxford graduate Ed Washburn is given his first 'death knock', interviewing the parents of Shawn Kingsley, a footballer who has committed suicide. When details emerge about Kingsley's private life that prompt his distraught parents to withdraw the ... Written by Anonymous