he send reporters to las vegas to investigate possible corruption among judges there the editor of the sarasota paper bill church said he refused to do so despite the reporters having filed 15000 words on their courthouse reporting the reviewjournal did not publish an article eitherbut then at the end of november as the adelson family purchase of the reviewjournal neared completion mr schroeders new britain herald ran an article about business courts that was sharply critical of judge gonzalez the same article appeared in his other paper the bristol pressthe article appeared under the byline edward clarkin but two people quoted in the article said they never spoke to a person by that name and that quotations attributed to them were fabricatedmelanie brown a spokeswoman for steve arwood the head of the michigan economic development corporation said that mr arwoods quotation was either made up or cobbled together from public comments he had made he never did an interview with this publication or on the subject of business courts she saidthere is no edward clarkin living in connecticut according to public records mr clarkin has written five other articles four restaurant reviews and a book review all of them appearing in connecticut papers controlled by mr schroeder the reviewjournal reported last week that mr schroeders middle name was edward and his mothers maiden name was clarkinasked whether he was writing under the nom de plume edward clarkin mr schroeder declined to commentmr schroeder appears to have a connection to the adelson family through russel pergament the publisher of jnsorg which syndicates articles from mr adelsons paper israel hayom in the united states mr schroeder and mr pergament worked together at bostonnow a defunct free daily newspapermr pergament could not immediately be reached for commentto deal with the fallout from its reviewjournal purchase the adelsons have hired mark fabiani a crisis communications specialist who worked in the clinton white house and for the cyclist lance armstrong mr fabiani did not respond to inquiries about whether the issue of nevada judges came up during sales talksmichael e reed chief executive of new media investment group the company that sold the paper said in an email it did nothing wrong or inappropriate with regard to this specific topic he said his companys interest in judges was part of an investigative news project and added that new media which will continue to manage the reviewjournal had never had a business or personal relationship with mr schroederon christmas day steve collins the bristol press reporter who quit amid accusations of journalistic misconduct by his papers publisher mr schroeder received a 5000 award from a nonprofit run by jeremy stone son of the investigative journalist if stone in an email mr stone the president of the activist organization catalytic diplomacy praised mr collins for resigningmr collins mr stone wrote personifies what journalistic independence means and often requires