Mike Dooley, a reporter who covered Fort Wayne for 25 years before his retirement in 2006 and worked for both The Journal Gazette and The News-Sentinel, has died at 65:
Reporter Kevin Leininger worked with Dooley at The News-Sentinel and competed against him during Dooley's time at the Journal Gazette.
Leininger said Dooley was an “old-school” journalist who developed sources to get exclusive stories, instead of waiting for news to come to him. He said Dooley could expose “both the foolish and corrupt” in such a way that no one could stay mad at him for it.
“The profession is the poorer for the loss
