The four years I spent covering San Joaquin County included too many visits to homicide scenes and coroner’s name requests, but a cursory glance at the names and figures of the victims unsettled me.
Don't go into a community, especially one living with generations of trauma, with an agenda or a set of fixed assumptions. Had I done that, I wouldn’t have gotten very far in my reporting.
By partnering with teens, a reporter seeking a deeper understanding of health in local communities finds some of the best fixers around.
Why you should investigate the unequal implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which turns 30 next year.
Your job when using someone as a source is to make sure you're letting your audience know everything about that source that is relevant to that story.
This story was produced as a project for the USC Center for Health Journalism's 2018 Data Fellowship.
“The Children of Central City,” a NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune multimedia series examining the long-term impact of trauma on New Orleans’ children, has won the National Press Foundation’s Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting.
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