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Health care reporters used to be Medicare hounds. What happened?
Medicare reporting, once a staple of health care journalism, has largely disappeared from health and political beats. Seniors are paying the price.
Undocumented, uninsured Korean Americans find safe havens in nonprofit clinics
While legal residents have increasingly found insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, the picture remains bleak for the large number of undocumented Korean Americans living in California
On the 25th anniversary of anti-immigrant Prop 187, a journalist recalls her own U.S. arrival
A Los Angeles reporter reflects on her own immigration story — and how 1994's Proposition 187 seeped into her family's new life in California.
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How to use your email to challenge and invigorate your own reporting
What stories are you ignoring? What stories might be consuming too much of your bandwidth? Are you spending too much time with one particular source? It's worth scrutinizing your inbox periodically.
Despite gains, the emotional lives of children often forgotten by our medical system
Given that one in four children in this country has a chronic condition, the human costs of such negligence are high.
We avoid thinking about long-term care. Can well-told stories change that?
Reporting this story really opened my eyes to how important it is to collectively think about how we ought to care for seniors — and how little we actually do that.
How to start investigating health and safety problems at meat producers near you
As a reporter, you can do your part by both exposing the problems discovered by regulatory bodies and exposing the big gaps in the regulatory safety net.
Why do so many transgender youth say they want to kill themselves?
Before she began her transition three years ago, Dallas Ducar struggled with depression, anxiety, substance abuse and the profoundly unsettling sensation “that things did not feel real.”
Could mental health services in schools drive academic achievement?
Georgia’s APEX program is entering its fifth year. It’s the state’s attempt to increase mental health services in both private and public schools. ...
Wildfire & Youth Health
This story was produced as a project for the 2019 California Fellowship, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism.
How the aftermath of devastating wildfires takes a toll on children's health
In the fires that devastated Paradise and Santa Rosa, kids were often the most vulnerable.
