Dave Davis

News research director

I oversee The Plain Dealer's computer-assisted reporting program and am a longtime investigative journalist who has spent much of my 20 years in the business covering health care issues. Before coming to Cleveland, I did stints at the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette and the Dayton Daily News. I received a bachelor's degree in English literature from The Colorado College and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. I am an adjunct faculty member at John Carroll University and a 2009 National Health Journalism Senior Fellow.

Articles

Sustaining the Outrage: Revisiting America's Most At-Risk Residents - Our Children

<p>Our children shouldn’t live this way.</p>
<p>They shouldn’t have to play at contaminated abandoned industrial sites because their neighborhoods have no green space. They shouldn’t be at risk of dying before their first birthday because the color or their skin makes getting health care difficult. They shouldn’t go to schools where there is no learning and where their parents’ greatest hope is that they don’t join a gang or get attacked.</p>