The Backstory: Behind the Union-Tribune’s 72 Hours project

San Diego County, like many places nationwide, faces a mental health crisis. For three days last year, nearly two dozen journalists with The San Diego Union-Tribune followed patients, police, clinicians, dispatchers and a host of others struggling for help to create a minute-by-minute account of our overwhelmed system. Union-Tribune public safety editor Dana Littlefield, communities editor Tarcy Connors, managing editor Lora Cicalo, and publisher and editor Jeff Light discuss this in-depth multi-media special report.

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The Backstory: Behind the Union-Tribune’s 72 Hours project is an episode from San Diego News Fix by San Diego News Fix.

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This episode was published on Apr 16, 2023.

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