North Carolina's high infant mortality rate has been the topic of official state reports and politicians' denunciations since I've been a reporter here — more than 20 years.
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Tulane University announced Wednesday that the Pincus Family Foundation, a nonprofit created in 2005, awarded a $550,000 grant to the school to create an interdisciplinary program aimed at preventing the violence that plagues New Orleans' streets.
This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Monica Vaughan, a participant in the 2019 California Fellowship....
This story was produced as a project for the 2019 California Fellowship.
A journalist shares key lessons from reporting on the Puerto Rican government's failed responses to a dangerous disease that spread after two hurricanes ravaged the island.
The Courier Journal's continued coverage of food insecurity in Louisville is supported by the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism's 2018 National Fellowship.
At first the story of Dajha Richards' death was poised to be another daily about a fatal shooting. But as reporter Molly Sullivan combed through her social media accounts, she found a much deeper story of love and abuse.
“You understand you can’t change a culture on a dime," a CEO of a local health system told me. "You have to transform a culture over time."
This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Monica Vaughan, a participant in the 2019 California Fellowship.
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This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Monica Vaughan, a participant in the 2019 California Fellowship.
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