Please join us next Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern for a webinar featuring two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Steele in conversation with Anu Narayanswamy of the Washington PostUNSUNG DOCUMENTS: How to mine a rich, but often overlooked vein of resources that can enliven a story, help to shape a narrative and provide color and detail that is unavailable ...
In an investigation for Georgia Health News, reporter Rebecca Grapevine found that transportation services for Medicaid beneficiaries often leave clients waiting for hours for rides that sometimes never arrive. State Medicaid programs are required to provide transportation to and from healthcare appointments, and they contract with large transportation brokers to provide these services for millions of dollars. During an initial ...
Wisconsin Watch investigated a child abuse pediatrician whose declarations of abuse were rejected at least a dozen times by police, prosecutors, jurors, child protective services officials and other doctors. Dr. Barbara Knox was placed on leave from the University of Wisconsin in 2019 for allegedly bullying her colleagues. Now she is medical director of Alaska CARES, a statewide forensic child ...
City Limits published the first story in a planned series examining the role of “Community Benefits Agreements” in the city’s land use and development planning. Once a popular part of high-profile real estate deals, CBAs were seen as a way for community members to ensure that developers building neighborhood-changing projects – sports stadiums, university campus expansions, a shopping mall – ...
Following the George Floyd protests, Dallas Morning News reporters documented how a Dallas police sergeant blasted a Latina demonstrator in the breast at close range with pepper balls then arrested her and the photographer who captured the violence. Reporters Cassandra Jaramillo, Madi Alexander and Miles Moffeit soon heard whispers that this wasn’t the first time Sgt. Roger Rudloff had roughed ...
The Clean Slate movement, which seeks to end public access to individual criminal records, is gathering momentum across the United States. It is widely lauded as a means to allow people who have reformed or were wrongly arrested to cleanse the public record. By doing so, these people improve their chances for a job, an education, a place to live ...