Best clips as of mid-November
A mercury cleanup specialist tests mercury vapor in bags containing clothes removed from a local home. I reported on the family’s plight when they found out their home had poisoned them. Some clothes tested over 100 times the limit considered safe. Photo by Barbara J. Perenic, courtesy of the Springfield-News Sun.
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Here’s my resume again, for your reference.
Below are some of my best and most fun clips. They all fall in the realm of health and science reporting, but that’s never technically been my beat. All my experience has been general-assignment.
Feel free to skip the summary on each of these pages and head right for the linked articles. I try to give my blog’s readers a taste of the reporting process, or at least something behind the curtain of each published article.
Death certificate error — The basis for funding science has little basis itself.
Commercial kitchen inspections — Local violations border on the obscene.
Availability of painkillers — State lawmakers legislated fear into the hearts of doctors, and thus pain into the bodies of patients.
Few mosquitoes tested — The state offers free testing, but 67 of 88 Ohio counties keep rejecting the offer to gauge local disease rates.
Landfill seeping carcinogens — No well testing had been done recently in the path of a poisonous underground plume.
A fun extra:
I helped produce segments similar to the one below throughout my 4-month internship with food reporter Steve Dolinsky at the ABC affiliate in Chicago. His editor and I cobbled this together so I’d have something to show for it.
