Story of Neda’s Death Reveals 7 Elements of Next-Step Journalism

Just before ending his news conference Tuesday, President Obama called on CNN's Suzanne Malveaux for one last question.

MALVEAUX: Back to Iran, putting a human face on this. Over the weekend, we saw a shocking video of this woman, Neda, who had been shot in the chest and bled to death. Have you seen this video?"

THE PRESIDENT: I have... It's heartbreaking... And I think that anybody who sees it knows that there's something fundamentally unjust about that.

The mention of her name at a presidential news conference reflected the extent to which Neda Soltani had become, as Malveaux put it, "the human face" of the weekend's dramatic events in Iran.

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