journalism

The Tampa Bay Times is earning well-deserved praise for a package of stories called Why Cops Shoot. Since no government agency was keeping track of police shootings in Florida, the Times took on the task.

Jonathan Cohn will receive the 2014 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism for “The Hell of American Daycare,” which exposed the national pattern of under-regulation when it comes to child care options, particularly for low-income parents.

A fortnight ago, the appeals court for the Second Appellate District in California invalidated a court order that had eased media access to Los Angeles County’s otherwise closed juvenile dependency hearings.

by Ben Baeder If the public only knew how messed up things were for foster kids, people would insist on change. That’s the enduring — and possibly naïve — hope among those who know the children in foster care.

The Casey Journalism Center on Children & Families, an organization based at the University of Maryland, announced the winners of the 2013 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism. The medals are awarded by a large panel of judges to celebrate the best reporting on children and families each year.

On November 15, Fostering Media Connections held a town hall discussion at the University of California-Berkeley to discuss the arguments for and against the presence of media in juvenile dependency proceedings.

The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR) was borne of a 1991 meeting in Cambridge, Mass., in which its founders decided it was necessary to create a single entity that would identify and challenge media coverage and what NCCPR Board President Martin Guggenheim described as a “powerful desire to blame the worst things that happen to children on their parents.”