Elizabeth Mehren

About Elizabeth Mehren

Elizabeth Mehren, a professor of journalism at Boston University, was until 2007 a reporter at the Los Angeles Times.

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Public Service Pulitzers: How These Stories Were Told

By Elizabeth Mehren• Opinion• September 15, 2008

Reporters’ experiences ‘remind journalists why they are in their business and inform the rest of the world how the mission of the press fits into society.’ Read more

Journalists and Neighbors: Mehren and Harris

By Elizabeth Mehren• Opinion• September 15, 2008

Now for a little truth-and-disclosure. Roy Harris is both a friend and a neighbor. He and I met 10 years ago on a fundraising walk for our local wildlife rescue center. He spotted my Los Angeles Times T-shirt, and I … Read more

The Messengers of Mississippi in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

By Elizabeth Mehren• Features• December 15, 2005

In small, forgotten towns of the Gulf Coast, a reporter tells the stories she heard amid the hurricane’s devastation. Read more

Reporting Stories With Children as Victims of Priests

By Elizabeth Mehren• Journalist’s Trade• March 15, 2003

For journalists in Boston, ‘this crazy locomotive’ of a story has been unceasing and, at times, wrenching to cover. Read more

Girls and Juvenile Violence

By Elizabeth Mehren• Features• December 15, 1998

Stories Rarely Told Read more