Detroit residents showed how unreliable transportation can turn health care access into a daily struggle.
Community Engagement
A reporter distills lessons from her community engagement approach while reporting on gaps in mental health care in LA’s Thai community.
A reporter traces how gender exploratory therapy entered policy, navigating source resistance, reframing the story through policy experts, archives, and community engagement.
Crash data revealed where pedestrian deaths happen, but on-the-ground reporting exposed invisible injuries, design flaws, and survivor trauma that databases alone can’t capture.
In a state known for innovation, maternal deaths still fall hardest on Black, Indigenous and low-income families.
In one of New Jersey’s poorest school neighborhoods, chronic absenteeism is more than a statistic — it reflects generational poverty, classroom chaos and a fragile public system.
A Bay Area reporter set out to cover the health needs of undocumented Indian immigrants, but instead discovered a undercovered story about first-generation Sikh communities.
Data analysis is a powerful reporting tool. But as one reporter learns, it’s insufficient unless it’s grounded in the reality of the community you’re reporting on.
A reporter finds many people are eager to have more conversations about menopause and its impacts, but are struggling to find the right venue.
“Families are often excluded from how these funds are going to be used,” said one family member. “We’re not included in conversations.”