Sure, he’d already been interviewed by local newspaper and television reporters. But for Conor Spahr, news editor of Herriman High School’s now-infamous student newspaper, it was seeing his story told by The Washington Post that brought home what a big deal his situation had become almost overnight.
“That meant the world to me. I almost started crying when I saw that,” Gordon said. “‘Jake Tapper retweeted the story?’ He’s a personal hero of mine.”
An investigative story written by Spahr and edited by Gordon about the dismissal of a Herriman teacher under police investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate text messages to a student was pulled from the school paper’s website, which was also subsequently taken offline temporarily.