LuLu... I noted this in the Press Think article . . .

20. According to news industry analyst Ken Doctor, the Washington Post will add more than 60 journalists in the coming year. The Post is making money again. And its leadership believes that “investigative and deeper enterprise stories are good for the brand and the business”— not an expense that has to be subsidized by lighter fare, but a means to sustainability in themselves. That’s significant.

The following depicts the type of deep investigative journalism that can and is being done.

The following is cross posted from one of my threads at TPM Hive (paywall). It's directly related to the Washington Post.

Now if they will only really let the dogs loose on the Washington bubble-bunch.

A very sobering situation... (no pun intended)...

Take a moment a way from Trump and his mindless tweets and his sycophants who wish to cut the safety-nets. Read here about what's really rotting our country from within...

And when you feel like bashing the media, think of these journalists that are really doing their jobs...

In a year-long series, The Washington Post has explored a complex epidemic that combines an oversupply of addictive prescription drugs with a dismaying demand for them among people struggling with pain and hopelessness.

These three individuals are just a few of the thousands of souls spread across this "Greatest Nation in the World." Read on...

Traci Andrus, 45, is known as “Mom.” She had been a city social worker until she needed routine surgery and became hooked on opioid painkillers. Familiar story: The pills led to cheaper heroin, she says, then to all manner of chaos and dysfunction, and unemployment, and jail, and finally this new existence in the little house by the tracks. “I had a home. I had a brand-new car. I had a life,” Andrus says.

Rachel Kerner, 39, is tall, striking and known as “Fancy” because she’s always dressed to the nines. She had a good career as a flight attendant, but she used cocaine recreationally, failed a drug test and lost her job. She also lost a child three weeks after giving birth, and she began abusing prescription opioids. “I didn’t really deal with my son’s death until I got into rehab,” she says.

Lisa Touvell, 49, had steady factory work for years but has always struggled with addiction and a decade ago made the transition from pills to heroin. “I gave up. I couldn’t find a job. Two failed marriages. My kids were taken away. I gave up,” she says. She wound up in prison for drug trafficking, and she was released in March. “I’m tired,” she says, persuasively.

The entire article is quite stark...

December 29. 2016 | WaPo

No longer ‘Mayberry,’ a small Ohio city fights an epidemic of self-destruction

And that article is but one found here in a year-long series in the WaPo:

Unnatural Causes: Sick and dying in small-town America

A new divide in American death... Drugs, alcohol, marketing and lax federal oversight are working to defy modern trends of mortality, perhaps most starkly among middle-aged white women.

 

 

And there are another 11 articles in the series...

WaPo has the talent. Now let's see what they do with it.

~OGD~

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