My in-depth reporting class is working on a pair series about the funding of K-12 education and higher education. Here are some samples of great newspaper series from the past (which don’t have anything to do with education funding…)
- Left of Boom
The Washington Post’s series about how the U.S. military responded to the use of IEDs in the war in Iraq. - Immigrant Students
A series from 2008 from the Dallas Morning News about how North Texas’ public schools are been affected by immigration. A year-long project that followed 60 new immigrant students and their teachers at a local high school. - Reasonable Doubt
2009 Pulitzer Prize winning series from Arizona’s East Valley Tribune about how the sheriff’s focus on immigration enforcement led to neglect of other issues. This is a significant series in part because it was done by a suburban paper on a limited budget. - Seeking a Good Death
Pulitzer Prize winning series by Philadelphia Inquirerreporter Michael Vitez and photographers April Saul and Ron Cortes on critically ill patients wanting to die with dignity.