Behind the Reporting: The Philadelphia Inquirer's "Toxic City: Sick Schools"

In "Toxic City: Sick Schools" The Philadelphia Inquirer revealed unsafe conditions in Philadelphia's rundown public schools, with children forced to learn in buildings rife with mold, asbestos and flaking and peeling lead paint. By scouring maintenance logs and conducting scientific testing inside 19 elementary schools, and engaging teachers and parents in their reporting, the Inquirer built a comprehensive database of the shocking conditions putting children at risk on a daily basis. Read the reporting: In this episode of the Shorenstein Center podcast, Heidi Legg talks to reporters Wendy Ruderman, Barbara Laker, and Dylan Purcell, along with Investigations Editor Jim Neff, about how they found and analyzed data, tracked an expanding web of problems, and eventually uncovered the vast number of health hazards across the city's school system. This episode is part of the Shorenstein Center's special series of interviews with the finalists for the 2019 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism. The Goldsmith Prize winner will be announced at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government on March 12, 2019. Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com

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Behind the Reporting: The Philadelphia Inquirer's "Toxic City: Sick Schools" is an episode from Shorenstein Center Media and Politics Podcast by Shorenstein Center on Media Politics and Public Policy.

This episode is 19:27 long.

This episode was published on Mar 8, 2019.

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