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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:27 AM

Juvenile Justice

The Long Beach Press-Telegram has produced an excellent series, "Kids and Crime: Inside Juvenile Justice." The sections, written by Wendy Thomas Russell, Greg Mellen, Tracy Manzer and Kevin Butler, cover local neighborhoods, schools, police, courts and
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:37 AM

College Life

Earlier this week News Gems featured a great investigation by students at Humboldt State University. Today I want to highlight one of the most exciting multimedia projects I've seen, which was created by students at Northwestern University. Developed
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:59 AM

Vision Quest

In September 2006, Marquette University engineering professor Mark Polczynski challenged a team of five students as they began their senior project: Can you design a biodiesel reactor that's high tech, yet so ingeniously simple that you could imagine
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:34 AM

How Lucy Got Through College

Barbara Mahany of the Chicago Tribune does a fine job on human interest stories. Her latest, "Lucy's Mom Was There," is the inspiring story of Rosa Trevino and her 24-year-old daughter, Lucy, who is confined to a wheelchair and has limited use of her
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:00 AM

The Condemned

"Islamic Schools Lure African Boys Into Begging," by the AP's Rukmini Callimachi, is a powerful, disturbing story. While Callimachi builds dramatic tension by describing 9-year-old Coli's attempts to escape from a Quranic instructor, she takes us into
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:30 AM

Attacking the Teachers

Gabriel Sherman has a fascinating story in New York magazine about what happens at an elite prep school when its students begIn writing vicious attacks on a teacher using their Facebook pages. Sherman's "Testing Horace Mann" explores how social
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Monday, April 07, 2008 8:30 AM

Autism Alert

CNN and its partners at Time and Parenting magazines have put together an impressive package on autism. "Autism: Unravelling the Mystery" features more than two dozen print stories and videos along with an audio slideshow. Some of the highlights
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Friday, April 04, 2008 8:00 AM

Winning Pictures

The National Press Photographers Association has finished its 2008 competition, and the winners show us the best of photojournalism on the Web. John Moore of Getty Images captured first place in the still photo category for a portfolio showing the causes
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Monday, March 10, 2008 8:30 AM

When Schools Protect Predators

Amy Hsuan, Melissa Navas and Bill Graves of The Oregonian have produced a first-rate investigation into sexual abuse by educators, "Disciplining Oregon Teachers." Their most damning finding: School administrators often cut secret deals with teachers who
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:30 AM

Showing the Way

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus recently hosted a "tactile tour" for young children from Atlanta's Center for the Visually Impaired. A reporter might have covered this event by telling readers what happened and providing after-the-fact quotes
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:40 AM

Alarming Situation

Josh Bernstein of KNXV ABC-15 in Phoenix reveals that Arizona's nine state fire inspectors often go many years without checking some of the state's schools. One town's schools hadn't been inspected in seven years, he reports in "School Fire Inspections
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Monday, January 14, 2008 9:00 AM

Children on Drugs

Last week PBS' Frontline ran a powerful story by producer, writer and director Marcela Gaviria about the steep increase in psychiatric medicines that children are receiving. "The Medicated Child" explores the possible impact on kids of
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:30 AM

Best Gems of 2007

When we sat down to create the Top 10 News Gems of 2007, we ended up with an initial list of more than 40 favorite stories. We had a hard time deciding among the many outstanding examples of journalism from magazines, broadcast outlets, Web sites and
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Friday, December 07, 2007 8:45 AM

Pumping Pills

In an excellent special report, "Broken College System Lets Drug Cheats Slip Through the Cracks," Michael C. Lewis and Nate Carlisle of The Salt Lake Tribune show that college athletes can go their entire careers without being tested for steroids and
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Monday, December 03, 2007 11:11 PM

Hear Their Voices

With a simple, yet revealing lede, Haley Edwards of the Seattle Times introduces the main characters in "For Classmates Fighting Cancer, Life Isn't Over -- Just Different": Three 12-year-old girls stand in the hallway outside their seventh-grade classroom.
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