Reporting: Best Practices

Best Practices: "Follow My Steps"

Reporting: Best Practices —  April 05, 2013, Mina Dixon

Andrew Hida's quietly compelling "Follow My Steps" was recently honored by the National Press Photographers Association.

Reporting, Best Practices: Investigating "Broken Adoptions"

Reporting: Best Practices —  January 25, 2013, Mina Dixon

In a January 2013 special investigation for City Limits, reporter Rachel Blustain tackles the growing concern over broken adoptions, cases in which a child adopted out of foster care returns to the system or otherwise leaves an adoptive family.

Best Practices: Giving Consumers "Fair Warning" about Toddler Burns

Reporting: Best Practices —  December 19, 2012, Lyndsey Wallen

When industries are allowed to impose voluntary safety standards, kids can get seriously hurt. JCCF speaks with FairWarning editor Myron Levin about his year-long series on fireplace glass manufacturers and toddler burns.

Investigating Abuse and a "Broken Shield"

Reporting: Best Practices —  December 14, 2012, Mina Dixon

California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting tackle abuse and neglect at board-and-care centers for the developmentally disabled.

Covering an "Empty Desk Epidemic"

Reporting: Best Practices —  November 15, 2012, Lyndsey Wallen

Chicago Tribune reporters discover chronic truancy and absenteeism can begin as early as kindergarten for students in the city's public schools.

Navigating Higher Education Data With The Texas Tribune's Higher Education Explorer

Reporting: Best Practices —  October 10, 2012, Sarah Hogue

The Texas Tribune's Higher Education Explorer collects data on all 148 of the state's private and public colleges and universities.

Persistence and Luck: Covering Young People's Struggle to Complete College

Reporting: Best Practices —  September 12, 2012, Sarah Hogue

Emily Hanford on low-income students' struggle to complete a bachelor's degree.

Student Reporters and Free Speech

Reporting: Best Practices —  August 08, 2012, JCCF Staff

Resources for journalism's youngest Muckrakers.

Reporting the "Impact of Incarceration in Oakland"

Reporting: Best Practices —  July 25, 2012, Lyndsey Wallen

A small, nonprofit news site committed to underserved communities launches a 10-part series on the impact of incarceration in Oakland.

Probing the Connection Between Poverty and Pollution

Reporting: Best Practices —  July 18, 2012, Janelle Haskell

JCCF spoke with Marla Cone, EHN’s editor-in-Chief about the thought and work that went into reporting the series: “Pollution, Poverty and People of Color.”

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