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Miami Herald partners with 10 McClatchy newsrooms, The Trace and student journalists on a year-long project chronicling the rising toll of gun violence against youths, and marking the one-year anniversary of the tragedy in Parkland, Florida.
They called their movement ’Never Again.’ Then it happened again…
Stories and Videos By Miami Herald | McClatchy DC | The Modesto Bee |The Kansas City Star | The State, Ledger-Enquirer | Macon Telegraph | Belleville News-Democrat | The News & Observer | Star-Telegram | In cooperation with an impressive 200 teen journalists and The Trace
McClatchy Studios launches a new chapter of Titletown, Texas called ‘All We Got’ — taking us inside Gainesville State School, a juvenile detention center known for its winning football team.
Titletown, Texas: All We Got | Episode 1: ‘This is Gainesville’
Episode By Jessica Koscielniak, Brittany Peterson and Ayana Morali | McClatchy Studios
The Lexington Herald-Leader teams up with ProPublica to investigate possible ethics and privacy violations by the Kentucky secretary of state.
‘It’s inappropriate.’ Staff of Grimes searched voting records of workers and rivals.
Story By Daniel Desrochers | Video By Marcus Dorsey | Lexington Herald-Leader | Story also By Jessica Huseman | ProPublica
A Sacramento Bee reporter gives readers an inside look at the man accused of killing a police officer.
Exclusive: New details emerge about Kevin Limbaugh, the man who killed Davis Officer Natalie Corona
Story By Sam Stanton | Sacramento Bee
The Belleville News-Democrat strikes a chord with readers, looking at the 50-year-old homicides of two local teens.
Mascoutah residents still haunted by brutal murder of teens after prom 50 years ago
Story By Teri Maddox | Video By Derik Holtmann | Belleville News-Democrat
A Fresno Bee newspaper carrier describes the shocking moments when delivering his papers brought him into the path of a newborn who was abandoned in the middle of the road.
‘Awful, chilling moment’: Fresno Bee newspaper carrier finds newborn on Madera County road
Story By Jim Guy | Video By Eric Paul Zamora | The Fresno Bee
The Tribune newsroom finds its audience with the story of a local surfer who survived a shark attack.
‘It had one of my legs in its mouth’: How surfer escaped shark attack at Montaña de Oro
Story By Nick Wilson | Video By David Middlecamp | The San Louis Obispo Tribune
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