BizWest: Telling important public interest stories involving public entities that don’t want their stories told has certainly been among the most rewarding work a journalist can do. It explains why the press earned the moniker “the fourth estate,” in reference to the three constitutional estates — the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.

The press, of course, is not a governmental entity and is not part of the structure of American governance, except that it is the only private sector industry to be called out by name in the Bill of Rights’ First Amendment.

Over the past 50 years, there have been many instances of stories that organizations with which I’ve worked have been able to report when sources sought to keep things under wraps. But among the most rewarding was a recent one: The under development Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Loveland.

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