Skip to main content.

Search form

Menu

gang shootings

Picture of Denisse Salazar

With 13,000 gang members in Orange County, the push is on to curb crime and recruitment

By Denisse Salazar
The effort is bringing together civic leaders, police, educators, community groups and religious leaders. The goals are to curb gang-related crime, help children stay out of gangs, and deal with emotional aftermath of violence.
Picture of Denisse Salazar

How is gang violence damaging children and what can be done?

By Denisse Salazar
How is gang violence damaging children? To help answer that question, a reporter for the Orange County Register is following a family in Santa Ana, Calif. that has been touched by gang violence.

Announcements

National Fellowship Applications Now Open

The Center for Health Journalism’s 2023 National Fellowship will provide $2,000 to $10,000 reporting grants, five months of mentoring from a veteran journalist, and a week of intensive training at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles from July 16-20. Click here for more information and the application form, due May 5.

2023 Domestic Violence Symposium and Impact Reporting Fund

The Center for Health Journalism’s 2023 Symposium on Domestic Violence provides reporters with a roadmap for covering this public health epidemic with nuance and sensitivity. The next session will be offered virtually on Friday, March 31. Journalists attending the symposium will be eligible to apply for a reporting grant of $2,000 to $10,000 from our Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Fund. Find more info here!

CONNECT WITH THE COMMUNITY

  • Login or Join to connect with the community.

Most popular

  1. Center provides health journalism training and grants to 19 California journalists

  2. After receiving Section 8 vouchers, unhoused residents in LA still struggle to find housing

  3. Is the ‘new meth’ leading to an uptick in extreme mental illness among LA’s unhoused?

  4. This reporter has a gift for finding people. She’ll be the first to tell you there are no shortcuts.

  5. In the port town of Wilmington, the community’s long fight against industrial pollution continues

  6. With legislation set to expire, California families face rising costs for diapers

Follow Us

Facebook

Twitter

CHJ Icon
ReportingHealth