Kit Stolz
reporter
Have been reporting, mostly on health, climate and environmental topics, mostly in Ventura County. for well over a decade.
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When freelance reporter Kit Stolz began reporting on the obesity disparity between two towns in Ventura County, he found officials in one town happy to talk while those in the other where hard to get on the line. In this post, he shares some of his missteps and lessons learned along the way.
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In small towns in California's Ventura County, the number of children who are overweight or obese has reached nearly 48 percent, among the highest figures in the state. With the help of two activist groups, one group of students has resolved to do something about the problem.
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Time to jump on the butter bandwagon? Read the headlines this year and you could easily think, "Why not?" But researchers say the media's coverage on the topic has been misleading and lacking nuance. Their criticisms offer useful lessons for journalists covering health research.
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In Ventura County, which lies just north of Los Angeles in the sprawl of Southern California, great wealth -- in towns such as Thousand Oaks or Ojai -- can be found not far from great desperation, in towns such as Oxnard or Santa Paula.