Reporting on county jails and jail deaths? Use these tips from Matt Brannon of the Redding Record Searchlight to sharpen your efforts.
Community Engagement
By partnering with teens, a reporter seeking a deeper understanding of health in local communities finds some of the best fixers around.
"I ultimately found a handful of good sources who were willing to share their personal housing struggles. But it took a lot more work than I expected to get there."
In the fires that devastated Paradise and Santa Rosa, kids were often the most vulnerable.
A reporter shares a handful of investigative reporting techniques that proved essential in overcoming blind spots among local health experts who were largely unaware of opioids' toll in their communities.
Ultimately, I had no data for my data project. So, under the advice of data guru Paul Overberg of The Wall Street Journal, I created my own.
As a journalist, I was out of my depth and definitely out of my comfort zone. But after weeks of furious planning I looked around the Hall of Culture — a gorgeous ballroom in San Francisco’s African American Art and Culture Complex — and realized we had pulled it off....
A questionnaire helped a reporter find more than a dozen Louisville residents of different neighborhoods and backgrounds who all faced similar problems.
A Los Angeles Times reporter spent a year reporting on the high schools in LA County surrounded by the highest number of homicides. Here's what she learned about reporting on trauma.
Over a year after devastating fires, many families still struggle from both the initial trauma and the aftermath of the blaze.