What it's like to be a polygamy beat reporter

From Columbia Journalism Review Mon Nov 17 2014, 16:10:00

By Chris Ip Last Tuesday, The New York Times' frontpage headline read "It's Official: Mormon Founder Had Many Wives." That Joseph Smith married as many as 40 women-one of them 14 years old, and others already married to his followers-was a rare story for national news. But it was just another day on the job Nate Carlisle, perhaps the...

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