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The Kansas City Star’s investigative team delivered one of the most meaningful journalism packages of the year with Throwaway Kids, a deeply reported series on just how miserably the foster care system prepares children for life after foster care. It was penetrating and heartbreaking, and has rightly been seen throughout the media business as one of the most important pieces of 2019.
Throwaway Kids: ‘We are sending more foster kids to prison than college’
Stories By Laura Bauer, Judy L. Thomas and Eric Adler | Videos and Photos By Shelly Yang, Tammy Ljungblad and James Wooldridge | Graphics By Neil Nakahodo | The Kansas City Star
Video By Reshma Kirpalani | McClatchyDC
Deep Background podcast: Is there a solution?
‘Heartbreaking report’: Foster care series sparks calls for change across the country
McClatchyDC military and veterans affairs reporter Tara Copp delivered another shocking exclusive related to cancer among servicemen and women.
Cancers strike veterans who deployed to Uzbek base where black goo oozed, ponds glowed
Story By Tara Copp | Video By Reshma Kirpalani and Tara Copp | McClatchyDC
Sacramento Bee journalists worked together to produce S.A.C., a documentary on the police shooting of Stephon Clark. The Bee then held a screening and Q & A session for the community.
Documentary: A city and family forever changed by the shooting of Stephon Clark
Produced By Alyssa Hodenfield | The Sacramento Bee
Further reading: Stephon Clark documentary debuts; Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn faces heated Q&A
The Sacramento Bee offered another fine example of how to take a utility or news-you-can-use approach with its piece on the state denying ammo purchases
Thousands of lawful California gun owners are being denied ammunition purchases. Here’s why
Story By Ryan Sabalow | Video By Xavier Mascareñas | Charts By Phillip Reese | The Sacramento Bee
The Sun Herald covered the heart-rending story of a man who searched for his lost dog for six days — only to find the dog’s collar and an anonymous note in his mailbox from someone claiming to have shot and killed the dog as it rummaged through the neighbor’s trash.
His dog went missing. Then he found a tragic note and her collar in his mailbox.
Story and Video By Alyssa Newton | The Sun Herald
McClatchy’s real-time political reporter moved quickly after the president’s strike in Iraq — informing readers on McClatchy sites across the country.
Is the US headed for World War III? Here’s what experts say as Twitter fears the worst
Story By Maya Earls | McClatchy Real-time team
An editorial in the Idaho Statesman examines how a change in state law, and a change in attitudes toward how misdemeanor ‘driving without privileges’ charges are handled , led to a repeat offender causing a fatal crash.
Repeat offender killed 2 near Boise. He should have been behind bars, not the wheel
Opinion By Scott McIntosh | Idaho Statesman | Video By Alyssa Hodenfield| The Sacramento Bee
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