Author

Elizabeth Mehren

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

Public Service Pulitzers: How These Stories Were Told

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.’
September 15, 2008

Journalists and Neighbors: Mehren and Harris

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…
September 15, 2008

The Messengers of Mississippi in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

In small, forgotten towns of the Gulf Coast, a reporter tells the stories she heard amid the hurricane’s devastation.
December 15, 2005

Reporting Stories With Children as Victims of Priests

For journalists in Boston, ‘this crazy locomotive’ of a story has been unceasing and, at times, wrenching to cover.
March 15, 2003

Girls and Juvenile Violence

Stories Rarely Told
December 15, 1998