in an interactive article<\/a> published by The News 16 years later in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\nMichael Merschel, a former colleague of Stahl, said the details of her original adoption story stuck with him for decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’ve read a lot of adoption stories, and that one was one of the most riveting I ever came across,” he said. “It was a\u00a0remarkable story.”<\/p>\n
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Gayle Reaves, a former reporter at The News who worked alongside Stahl,\u00a0described her as “an excellent reporter.”<\/p>\n
“She had great, great sources, and she knew … how to get into the nuances of the story,” Reaves said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reaves said Stahl was deeply passionate about social justice and those who are less fortunate. She cared about people and just wanted to help them in any way she could.\u00a0Stahl also had a great depth of knowledge.<\/p>\n
Scott McCartney, a former news columnist at The Wall Street Journal, said he knew Stahl for close to five decades. Karen\u00a0Blumenthal, his late wife and former Dallas Morning News journalist,\u00a0and Stahl were friends since pre-school, which forged the pathway for their long-standing family friendship, according to McCartney.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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He described Stahl as a\u00a0courageous reporter and person who tackled difficult topics with nuance and ease. He described her writing as honest and authentic.<\/p>\n
“Her writing always was clear and concise,” he said. “She really had the ability to hit the nail on the head and tell you exactly what you needed to know.”<\/p>\n
Echoing Reaves, he said Stahl was passionate about civil rights and justice which led her to hold institutions accountable through her work and take on bold beats that were way ahead of her time. An example he shared: She wrote about sexual harassment long before the Me Too social movement started.<\/p>\n
“She had a very strong sense of right and wrong,” McCartney said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Stahl eventually went on to teach journalism at Southern Methodist University. She served on the Cultural Affairs Commission in Dallas. She also served as the Director of Public Affairs at UT Southwestern Medical Center and worked as a media specialist at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
She is survived by her daughter Sara, her sister Cathy Golden and her two nephews, Will and Charlie.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff\/DMN Lori Stahl, a longtime\u00a0reporter for The Dallas Morning News who also worked for The Washington Post and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,87998,95372],"class_list":["post-304577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}