William Huntsberry
Education Reporter
Education Reporter
Will Huntsberry is an investigative reporter with Voice of San Diego. In 2019, he exposed a California doctor who had written hundreds of vaccine exemptions to school children for reasons outside of accepted medical science. That project led to a new state law that closed loopholes for vaccine exemptions. The local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded him its annual community impact award. Huntsberry was previously a producer and Kroc fellow at National Public Radio. Prior to that he attended Columbia Journalism School and worked at an alt-weekly in North Carolina. His project is about the disparate suicide rates in certain communities.
For young women in the armed forces to consider suicide – and act on it – is far more common than their civilian peers, a new analysis by Voice of San Diego finds.
An average of more than five Marines per year died by suicide at Camp Pendleton. At least 20 took their lives in the barracks – and another four during training exercises.
The suicide crisis among veterans has been well documented. But another dark phenomenon exists just beneath the surface in San Diego and across the country.
Suicide rates in the United States have been rising for nearly 20 years. But for some groups the rate has been climbing faster than others.