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Thursday, September 04, 2008 5:26 AM

Broken Trusts

In January we highlighted a Boston Globe story, "Courts Strip Elders of Their Independence," produced by eight Northeastern University students overseen by journalism professor Walter V. Robinson. Five of Robinson's students have created another
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 5:56 AM

Gutting out Gustav

Bravo to the staff of the New Orleans Times-Picayune and all the other journalists who braved Hurricane Gustav to continue reporting the news. Although the Times-Picayune couldn't turn out a paper edition because of Gustav, it kept publishing hurricane stories,
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:20 AM

Marching on Meds

"The Battle Within" by David Olinger and Erin Emery of The Denver Post reveals that the Army is deploying injured troops to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, at times overruling doctors' classifications of soldiers as "nondeployable." This helps the Army
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Friday, August 29, 2008 5:51 AM

The Courageous Kid

It's not often that we feature stories about funerals on News Gems, but Mike White's "Funeral for a Teen Whose Bravery Touched So Many" in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette grabbed my heart. White does an amazing job of using simple words to richly describe the
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:33 AM

Hurricane Warning

As Hurricane Gustav strengthens and heads toward the Gulf of Mexico, "New Orleans Repeating Deadly Levee Mistakes" by AP's Cain Burdeau raises alarming issues. Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina:
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:11 AM

Two Fighters

I like columnists who go out of their way to do their own original reporting. Few do it better than the Los Angeles Times' Steve Lopez, who has a knack for finding compelling stories in places far from the corridors of power. For this column
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Monday, August 25, 2008 6:09 AM

Failing the Mentally Ill

"Broken Trust" by Eileen Kelley and Dan Horn of The Cincinnati Enquirer shows how city and state inspection systems designed to protect mentally ill nursing home residents broke down at two facilities. Cincinnati police Officer Aaron Layton was hunting
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:39 AM

Medicare Fraud

A six-month Miami Herald investigation has found rampant Medicare fraud in South Florida. A wide-ranging series of reports by Jay Weaver shows that corruption flourishes while regulators do little to stop it. Consider this statistic: In 2005, South Florida
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Friday, August 08, 2008 6:23 AM

Wildfires

Julie Cart and Bettina Boxall of the Los Angeles Times have written an exceptional series on the soaring costs of Western wildfires, "Big Burn." They examine the causes, including drought, shrinking snowpacks, the spread of nonnative grasses and the Forest
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:02 AM

The Poisons Around Us

The Center for Public Integrity has recently released two great investigations that show how consumers and workers are being exposed to toxic hazards. "Perils of the New Pesticidies" by M.B. Pell and Jim Morris reveals that the number of reported human
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Friday, July 18, 2008 6:54 AM

Treatment or Abuse?

In Boston Magazine's "The Shocking Truth," Paul Kix does a masterful job of investigating the use of electro-shock therapy at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), a Massachusetts home for mentally handicapped and behaviorally impaired youth. The
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Friday, July 11, 2008 4:29 AM

The Nurse Shortage

Roy Wenzl of The Wichita Eagle has written a nice two-part report on how the nationwide shortage of nurses is affecting a local health-care provider, the Via Christi Wichita Health Network. The first part, "Health Care's Looming Crisis: A Need for Nurses,"
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:07 AM

Just Wait....

Associated Press Texas sports editor Jaime Aron has written an excellent narrative about his premature twin sons' fight for life, "Born Too Soon." There's much to recommend this story – it has just enough details, it moves at a nice pace, Aron shares
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:52 AM

Government Screw-Ups

I've seen a couple of great examples recently of television networks serving as watchdogs when the government acts with complete insensitivity toward some of its most vulnerable citizens. Brian Ross and Vic Walter of ABC News, in conjunction with Audrey
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:49 AM

Underground Workers

Jennifer Gonnerman's "Blood on the Tracks" in New York magazine does a great job of describing the dangerous world of the workers who maintain the city’s 660 miles of subway tracks. Gonnerman introduces us to the workers and shows us how they
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