This article was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2018 California Fellowship.
Shortly after two teens were shot in 2011 by another boy who mistakenly thought they were part of a rival gang, a group of editors at the Boston Globe met to brainstorm ways to better cover urban gang violence. It was a familiar and vexing issue.
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