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Staring down the biggest reporting project of your life? Get organized
There are experts to find, interviews to do, data to be crunched, and photos and videos to coordinate. How do you begin? Veteran project lead Catherine Stifter shares some tips.
New approaches help women suffering from maternal depression and domestic violence in L.A.'s safety net
Are there better ways to help women suffering from domestic violence and maternal depression? Forward-thinking providers and programs located at LAC+USC Medical Center are trying new approaches.
In California’s far north, a vast food desert makes for hungry kids
Highly rural, the communities outside of Crescent City in Northern California are food deserts. “I hear from staff all the time, these kids are hungry when they come to school,” one school administrator says.
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The Health section at U.S. News & World Report is seeking an experienced, full-time editor based in their Washington, D.C., office.
Sweeps of homeless camps in S.F. are creating a public health crisis
Serious mental and physical health issues are on the rise among S.F.’s homeless population, as the city recommits itself to seizing and disposing of their tents and belongings.
A reporter learns to go slow and gain trust for series on harm reduction for drug users
"You can’t just waltz into a community of people who are marginalized and under threat, stick a microphone in their faces and start asking them questions," writes reporter Judith Mernit, a 2018 Impact Fund recipient.
Napa Valley’s underbelly: The personal cost of living locally
The story of the Napa Valley is about more than its transition from a sleepy, rural commuter town to the wine capital of America, drawing millions of tourists per year.
KHN's JoNel Aleccia talks about how to give your reporting more impact
Find the people who can tell the story. Scrutinize death records. Isolate the levers that can create change.
Health policy expert: ‘I’m here to tell you the ACA is still working’
“For supporters of the ACA, we dodged a bullet,” said UCLA's Gerald Kominski. “However, just because the Dems won the House does not mean the ACA is safe at all.”
How LA’s beach communities are taking cues from ‘Blue Zones’ to engineer healthy changes
Can the "Blue Zones" approach lower chronic disease rates and boost lifespans? Or is it turning into a lifestyle movement for already healthy, affluent areas?
Five hard-won lessons from reporting on what domestic abuse does to children's brains
"One of the first lessons we learned was the need for patience with survivors. We were often asking people to relive their trauma when we interviewed them and that carried a high emotional cost for families."
