Finding the Story in the Numbers
A photo taken by data journalism student Sophie Park (Pardee’20) shows a man panhandling in Harvard Square in May. Photo by Sophie Park
Journalism & Media
A COM journalism class’ reporting on homelessness grabs national attention
December 11, 2020
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Government attempts to address homelessness in Boston have long yielded messy results. Just think of the controversial closing of the Long Island Bridge in 2015, which shuttered the city’s largest homeless shelter. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, it was a subject worthy of a deep journalistic investigation.
So, last summer, when the University of Maryland’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism asked the College of Communication’s Maggie Mulvihill if her students wanted to join Nowhere to Go, a multi-college investigation of homelessness in America, there was only one possible answer: