US: How the journalism of child welfare fails (Opinion)
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog – October 20, 2021
Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Now, try to imagine submitting a three-part series of more than 10,000 words filled with the comments of judges, prosecutors, police officers and prison guards – but not one word from someone accused of a crime, or even from a defense lawyer. Hard to imagine, especially now, isn’t it? Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care.
Also: Foster care: A system in crisis (Commentary): https://mountainstatespotlight.org/2021/10/01/a-system-in-crisis/
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