I’ll bet she will think twice before meeting in a garage for an anonymous news tip.
Reporters should not be the focus of the story, so now she’ll probably be overly paranoid and lose her job, but she deserves it.
She should lose her job strictly on the grounds of being too stupid to be a journalist!
She needs to try driving a cement truck!
An editor approved it right? Add in a very controversial move so maybe even a meeting of higher ups for the go ahead. She may get thrown under the bus but the fact she didn’t already could mean there were many people involved in the decision.