Journalist’s Trade

Is the U.S. Government Making Children Fat?

By asking different questions, a journalist connects farm policies to childhood obesity.

Secrecy Remained in Place With the Church’s Finances

Journalists were not able to secure the financial documents they needed to back up their reporting from informed sources.

Spring 2003: Journalist’s Trade Introduction

As New England bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, Elizabeth Mehren reports for West Coast readers on the region’s newsworthy events. In her story opening our series of articles…

Spring 2003: Introduction

Few topics receive more media attention today than the topic of health. Yet, in the view of some journalists, many of the stories being told about health are not ones…

The Uninsured Story Is Seldom Fully Told

Reporters rely on experts instead of going out where the story is happening.

Reporting on the Business of Health Care

‘… this beat is a rich, exciting and suspenseful journey.’

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.

Shining the Globe’s Spotlight on the Catholic Church

After publishing more than 900 articles about sexual molestation by priests, The Boston Globe’s coverage isn’t over yet.

Documenting How INS Detainees Are Treated

Facing imminent deportation back to his native Guatemala for a criminal conviction, Ronald Zetino is visited by his young son and family. The Mira Loma jail is rare in that…

Covering the INS in South Florida

‘Without dogged media pursuit, little will change the INS culture of impunity.’