Tag: new england center for investigative reporting

Three students earn reporting fellowships

Three Boston University graduate students have been selected by BU and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for international health reporting this summer as part of the center’s growing Campus Consortium Partnership of 16 institutions of higher education. Kate Petcosky-Kulkarni (SHA ’08, SPH ’17), Nikita Sampath (COM ’16) and Caitlin Bawn (COM ’16) will spend… Read More

NECIR: Lottery budget a ‘lifeline’ in Mass.

In its most recent report, The New England Center for Investigative Reporting looked at how small Massachusetts towns are increasingly relying on shrinking lottery funds for some of their most basic functions: In Lynn, where 2010 Census data show that nearly 20 percent of residents live in poverty, two years of cuts in “unrestricted aid”… Read More

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