Sarah Volpenhein, a business reporter who covers health care at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, talks about her career and how she got interested in journalism.
Here is an excerpt:
My alma mater, Ohio University, had a strong journalism program so I decided to try it out. The more I learned, the more I was hooked. I was inspired by the incredible work of visiting journalists and my professors.
I remember listening in silence as my data journalism professor Aimee Edmondson read aloud part of a series she once wrote uncovering that Memphis had the worst infant mortality rate in the country. The opening of the story, describing the burial of eight infants in a potter’s field, was infused with dignity and captured the urgency and severity of the issue. In her class, we learned about the persistence it takes to tell important stories, when dealing with everything from government denials of records to barriers to finding and talking with the people most impacted.
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