Bailey: Naming fired Germantown employee follows basic journalism tenets
Fleet services technician Geoffrey Harrison is responsible for spilling between 250 and 300 gallons of diesel at the Southern Avenue water treatment plant. (Alys Drake/The Daily Memphian)
Clay Bailey
Clay Bailey, a lifelong Memphian, has worked as a reporter in the city four decades. He concentrated on suburban coverage for the bulk of his career, except for a stint as sports editor of The Daily Memphian when it launched in September 2018. He now is suburban editor and also serves as a freelance sports writer for The Associated Press.
“We are in the journalism business, and our job is to inform readers about what happened.”
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