If Brian Haas only filed one story all year — his blockbuster scoop revealing that the mayor’s office had buried a much larger report on domestic violence than the one they released — he still might have been our pick. But his work on domestic violence and capital punishment issues has been stellar. And as one of the very few reporters at 1100 Broadway writing about criminal issues (or, hell, even reading the court filings) his byline has turned into mandatory reading for Nashvillians.
