Amy Jacobson Video 6 Minutes Scandal

We come across several incidents in our life where a simple mistake, done unknowingly changes our life so drastically. Amy Jacobson Video is a burning example of such a situation. Amy Jacobson a Native of Mt. Prospect, Illinois and graduation in Broadcasting and Film from Phi Beta Kappa University, Iowa opened the doors of journalism for her.

Amy Jacobson started her career with notable TV channels liker WJBK-TV in Detroit, Michigan, KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas, KOLD-TV in Tucson, Arizona, and KSAX-TV in Alexandria, Minnesota and finally entered WMAQ –TV in 1996 as general assignment reporter. In early 2007 she got an assignment to prepare a story on Lisa Stebic, a common woman missing from April 30. She couldnt imagine that it was her last assignment for WMAQ-TV. The Amy Jacobson Video shot during this story ruined her career forever.
Amy Jacobson was assigned to cover the disappearance of Craig Stebicc wife Lisa. She lived with her husband while they were going through a divorce. She had two kids. She disappeared on 30th April. On the phenomenal day, Jacobson was taking her two kids to the East Land Club for swimming. Craigs sister Jill invited her to discuss something which was disturbing her. Jacobson thought that it could be an opportunity to socialize with the Stebic family which could result in a revealing conversation. When she reached there, she saw a pool party was going on. She also put on her bathing suit. It was then the Amy Jacobson Video was shot unknowingly.
The next day, a six minute video of Amy Jacobson in her swim suits with her kids at Craig Stebics residence was aired on the CBS-2 channel. Peter Sussman, with the Society of Professional Journalists' ethics committee stated that Amy Jacobson had indeed done an unethical job since Craig Stebic was one of the prime suspects in the disappearance of his wife Lisa Stebic. It was also reported that Amy Jacobson was telling the police about her conversation with Craig Stebic without taking her bosss permission. This was also counted as unprofessional in journalism.10th July 2007 Amy had to negotiate her exit from WMAQ due to the Amy Jacobson Video scandal.
Though it was quite probable that it was typical journalist revenge by a rival channel, But many of her supporters said that it was not a mature decision taken by her part. Being a reporter she is expected to have maintained a proper distance. They believe that a little tactful decision could have prevented the Amy Jacobson Video scandal
It was said that her role was to report the mews rather than influencing or becoming s news. But again many people advocate that since she is a woman, therefore she had to face such consequences. They pointed out that in the past several woman reporters have been exploited by this. But the toll she had to pay was far much more than what she had done. The Amy Jacobson Video was indeed a costlier one. Wikipedia