There was a lot of talk this year about “fake news” and the role of the news media in keeping the public informed. At inewsource, our stories are built on a foundation of in-depth reporting, documents and data.
Accountability journalism takes time, persistence, precision and patience to get it right. As 2017 draws to a close, we’re looking back at the inewsource stories that reached the widest audience this year based on pageviews to our website. If you have ideas of stories or topics you would like us to consider tackling in 2018 so they might wind up on this list next year, drop me an email at laurawingard@inewsource.org.
San Diegans, like the rest of the nation, took a significant hit during the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009. But even after the economic recovery began, people in San Diego County continued to suffer.
An inewsourceanalysis of U.S. Census data showed that from 2011 to 2015 more than 450,000 county residents were living below the federal poverty line — defined as $12,082 a year for an individual. That was more than during the five-year period from 2006 to 2010, which included the Great Recession.
Few groups in the county were immune from poverty. The analysis found that poverty increased among the elderly, the young and those in their working years. It increased among people living alone and those living in families. It also increased among two-parent households and those with a single breadwinner.
Motivated by President Donald Trump’s call to build a longer and stronger wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, inewsource partnered with KPBS for this in-depth reporting project called “America’s Wall.” We wanted to know what Trump’s vision might mean for people living on both sides of the border, and we looked to facts from the past to tell that story.
Using previously undisclosed information from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, inewsource created an interactive map that shows every mile of the current wall along with when it was constructed. We layered that information with illegal immigration patterns over the decades as well as federal efforts to beef up law enforcement staffing along the border.
The data analysis shows not a unified wall but a series of fences and barriers stretching across California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. We also found the fencing is relatively new. Nearly 90 percent was constructed in the past dozen years. The wall’s construction and stepped up border enforcement also was a bipartisan effort involving Republican President George W. Bush and Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
If you haven’t checked out “America’s Wall,” which includes photos and videos of people whose lives are affected by the border, now is your chance.
Mexico is buying more and more natural gas from the U.S. to fuel its power grid, and that has some in Mexico worried about the country’s energy dependence. How much does Mexico rely on this trade? Seventeen U.S. gas pipelines enter the country, and four more are in development. Since 2010, U.S. natural gas to Mexico was also up 300 percent and is expected to double by 2019.
For Mexico, this steady supply of natural gas has allowed the nation to shift its source of electricity and factory fuel from burning diesel fuel and other oil products.
After inewsource’s investigation of the Gompers Preparatory Academy published, the reaction was swift. The school’s supporters, including students and parents, defended the college prep education provided at the charter school. But more than a dozen former students and teachers also reached out to inewsource, many validating the concerns raised in the initial story.
Here’s what Shamika Shropshire, a parent of two Gompers students, said in defense of the school: “I think that this school has been targeted because of the minorities that attend here. I don’t think they like to see us succeed, I don’t think they like to see us prosper in this world. This story may sound like the sweetest cake to some people, but it’s horrible to me. Because I’m on the inside looking out, and I’ve also been on the outside looking in, and I think this school has done a wonderful job in educating my two children.”
Using state hospital data, inewsource uncovered diabetes-related amputations of lower limbs are up dramatically in California, particularly in San Diego County. The numbers: a more than 31 percent increase statewide from 2010 to 2016 when adjusted for population change and a 66.4 percent increase in San Diego County.
The trend has confounded physicians, surgeons and public health officials who consider amputations an indication of the quality of a region’s diabetes care. For people with diabetes, amputations deprive them of their independence, increase the need for social services, and add to disability and medical costs.
With 23.1 million people in the U.S. diagnosed with diabetes, it’s not surprising that stories on the disease took the No. 5 and No. 6 spots in the list of our 10 most popular stories of the year.
The No. 6 story was about the amputation risks found in an industry-sponsored trial of people who take Invokana, a popular drug used to treat patients with Type 2 diabetes. The study led the FDA to issue a “black box warning” that the use of Invokana might increase the risk of leg and foot amputations. A number of physicians inewsource interviewed said they still prescribe the drug to lower their patients’ glucose levels, but others said they are being more cautious.
In the new year, we will continue to examine diabetes-related care and treatment. If you have thoughts on this topic, you can email our health care reporter, Cheryl Clark, at cherylclark@inewsource.org.
An inewsource investigation into possible financial problems at San Diego Christian College uncovered the school’s chief financial officer couldn’t account for more than $20 million in expenses that should have been detailed in public tax returns. Students pay $30,000 a year to attend the private, nonprofit college in Santee.
About a dozen current and former students were interviewed for the story. Some talked of unexplained cuts in scholarship money and trouble getting their financial aid. They also complained of inadequate facilities. Former professors said they were paid part-time wages for full-time work. A lawsuit filed by a vendor claimed the school often fell behind on payments. All of this and other public documents were used in the months-long investigation.
After the story came out in October, the college’s lawyer sent inewsource a retraction demand but stated no specific inaccuracies as required by California law. Weeks later, we learned through a former teacher and then confirmed through the college’s executive office that its CFO had been replaced.
Again, this is a story we’re continuing to follow. If you have information you’d like to share with reporter Megan Wood, you can email her at meganwood@inewsource.org.
A Sempra Energy vice president caused a stir in May when he told a group of gas and oil executives meeting in La Jolla that no technical obstacle is keeping California from getting all of its energy from renewable sources. inewsource was the first to report the comment from Patrick Lee, Sempra Energy’s vice president for major project controls.
Environmental groups and renewable energy companies have said for years that utilities don’t need to rely on fossil fuels for power. It can all come from sources like wind, solar and water. But power companies, including Sempra, have insisted the electric grid for now still needs natural gas-fueled plants.
Well, two days after the inewsource story came out, Lee backtracked on his comments. In a single tweet — the only one on his account that he created in May — the Sempra executive said: “My conference comments were incomplete & don’t mean 100% renewable now. Today a reliable grid in CA requires natural gas-fired generation!” Sempra also issued a statement calling Lee’s comments “aspirational in nature and not reflective of Sempra Energy’s position on the issue.”
The nonprofit Gompers Preparatory Academy in southeastern San Diego has received nearly $75 million in government grants and private contributions since it opened in 2005. The charter school promises to prepare every student for college. And for years, the people who founded the academy and who run it have received much praise for turning around what was once a drug- and gang-infested campus.
But a months-long inewsource investigation based on data, documents and interviews raised questions about the school’s promise that every graduate was ready for college. Gompers’ standardized student test scores are among the lowest in San Diego County and California. Yet its students often get A’s in rigorous college prep classes, including pre-calculus, advanced biology and AP history. Former teachers told inewsource they were pressured to inflate grades and that students who were failing were encouraged to attend other schools.
The school’s supporters, including Cecil Steppe, a school founder and board chairman, stand behind Gompers’ many accomplishments. “Most people talk about at-risk kids. What they define as at-risk is at risk to failure. We have at-risk kids that we say are at risk of becoming successful,” he said.
After the initial story published in May, we asked two college news interns to spend the summer tracking down Gompers’ graduates to see how they were doing in college. The results were mixed, and we shared them in stories and in a podcast.
We continue to follow the Gompers story. If you have comments and ideas on this investigation, email reporter Brad Racino at bradracino@inewsource.org.
inewsource broke the story in December that methane and other chemicals had been discovered underground at the new multimillion-dollar Village at Escaya, a massive housing project being built in eastern Chula Vista. Home buyers who had planned to move in by Christmas had those plans temporarily put on hold while the builder, HomeFed Corp. of Carlsbad, worked to mitigate the environmental issues at the 450-acre site.
We’ll continue to follow this story in 2018. One of the questions we will be trying to answer: Are the nearby Otay Landfill and other industrial developments the source of the methane and chemicals?
Since the story soared to the No. 1 spot for the year in just a couple of weeks, there obviously is a lot of interest in this. Reporters Brad Racino and Brandon Quester are following it. You can reach them at bradracino@inewsource.org and brandonquester@inewsource.org.
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Gender Identity
Gender Identity
Gender Identity
Women
80%
Women
82%
Women
75%
Men
20%
Men
18%
Men
25%
Sexual Orientation
Sexual Orientation
Sexual Orientation
Straight
87%
Straight
82%
Straight
100%
LGBTQ-identifying
7%
LGBTQ-identifying
7%
Not specified
7%
Not specified
7%
Speak a language beyond English at home
33%
Speak a language beyond English at home
18%
Speak a language beyond English at home
75%
Race/Ethnicity
Race/Ethnicity
Race/Ethnicity
White
67%
White
73%
White
50%
Hispanic or Latinx
20%
Two or more races
18%
Hispanic or Latinx
50%
Two or more races
13%
Hispanic or Latinx
9%
Age
Age
Age
20-29
40%
20-29
45%
20-29
25%
30-39
47%
30-39
45%
30-39
50%
60 or older
13%
60 or older
9%
60 or older
25%
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Lorie Hearn is the chief executive officer, editor and founder of inewsource. She founded inewsource in the summer of 2009, following a successful reporting and editing career in newspapers. She retired from The San Diego Union-Tribune, where she had been a reporter, Metro Editor and finally the senior editor for Metro and Watchdog Journalism. In addition to department oversight, Hearn personally managed a four-person watchdog team, composed of two data specialists and two investigative reporters. Hearn was a Nieman Foundation fellow at Harvard University in 1994-95. She focused on juvenile justice and drug control policy, a natural course to follow her years as a courts and legal affairs reporter at the San Diego Union and then the Union-Tribune.
Hearn became Metro Editor in 1999 and oversaw regional and city news coverage, which included the city of San Diego’s financial debacle and near bankruptcy. Reporters and editors on Metro during her tenure were part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning stories that exposed Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham and led to his imprisonment.
Hearn began her journalism career as a reporter for the Bucks County Courier Times, a small daily outside of Philadelphia, shortly after graduating from the University of Delaware. During the decades following, she moved through countless beats at five newspapers on both coasts.
High-profile coverage included the historic state Supreme Court election in 1986, when three sitting justices were ousted from the bench, and the 1992 execution of Robert Alton Harris. That gas chamber execution was the first time the death penalty was carried out in California in 25 years.
In her nine years as Metro Editor at the Union-Tribune, Hearn made watchdog reporting a priority. Her reporters produced award-winning investigations covering large and small local governments. The depth and breadth of their public service work was most evident in coverage of the wildfires of 2003 and then 2007, when more than half a million people were evacuated from their homes.
Laura Wingard is the managing editor at inewsource. She has been an editor in San Diego since 2002, working at The San Diego Union-Tribune, KPBS and now inewsource. At the Union-Tribune, she served in a variety of roles including as enterprise editor, government editor, public safety and legal affairs editor, and metro editor. She directed the newspaper’s award-winning coverage of the October 2007 wildfires and the 2010 disappearance of Poway teenager Chelsea King. She also oversaw reporting on San Diego’s pension crisis.
For two years, Wingard was news and digital editor at KPBS, overseeing a team of four multimedia reporters and two web producers. She also was the KPBS liaison with inewsource and collaborated with inewsource chief executive officer and editor Lorie Hearn on investigative work by both news organizations.
Wingard also worked at the Las Vegas Review-Journal as the city editor and as an award-winning reporter covering the environment and politics. She also was the assistant managing editor for metro at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside. She earned her bachelor’s degree at California State University, Fullerton, with a double major in communications/journalism and political science.
Brad Racino is the assistant editor and a senior reporter at inewsource. He has produced investigations for print, radio and TV on topics including political corruption, transportation, health, maritime, education and nonprofits.
His cross-platform reporting for inewsource has earned more than 50 awards since 2012, including back-to-back national medals from Investigative Reporters and Editors, two national Edward R. Murrow awards, a Meyer “Mike” Berger award from New York City’s Columbia Journalism School, the Sol Price Award for Responsible Journalism, San Diego SPJ’s First Amendment Award, and a national Emmy nomination.
In 2017, Racino was selected by the Institute for Nonprofit News as one of 10 “Emerging Leaders” in U.S. nonprofit journalism.
Racino has worked as a reporter and database analyst for News21; as a photographer, videographer and reporter for the Columbia Missourian; as a project coordinator for the National Freedom of Information Coalition and as a videographer and editor for Verizon Fios1 TV in New York. He received his master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 2012.
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Laura Wingard has been the inewsource managing editor since 2017. She’s been in the journalism business for some four decades, spending most of her career as an ink-stained wretch after graduating from Cal State Fullerton. She’s worked as a reporter and/or editor at six newspapers, including...
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