SPECIAL REPORTS

BEST OF ADAMS 2022

SPECIAL REPORTS

APG combined forces and resources in 2022 like never before. National enterprise editor Mike Sunnucks was at the center of two major collaborative efforts that served readers across the APG network, from Maryland to Oregon. First and foremost, our journalists are focused on local news in their communities but there are some issues that all of our communities share. In 2022, inflation and school security were among those issues.

ACROSS THE U.S. Inflation Nation Series

Editors and reporters in 10 APG newsrooms stepped up to help tell the story of how inflation was affecting families across the U.S. at the pocketbook level. Starting in January, we sent reporters from these newsrooms out to a grocery store with a common list of items to purchase. Every month these reporters went to the same store, with the same list and bought the same brands of these items. We built a database, charted the progression across 12 months and enlisted a group of economists to help us sort out the story of inflation across the U.S. Reporter Mike Sunnucks took the lead on enterprise. Eau Claire editor Matt Milner took the lead on digital packaging and graphics. Chris Moore and Chris Kerr at the design center gave us a print design every month that we published at these 10 sites and many others across the network. In December, Stacker.com teamed up with APG to display a year’s worth of data and distribute it across their own network. More at Wyoming Tribune Eagle

School Security Series

ACROSS THE U.S.

A number of APG newsrooms reported on school security as students came back to classrooms following the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, at the end of the 2021-2022 school year. Working with Mike Sunnucks, who reported from a national perspective, Janesville editor Karyn Saemann took the lead on crafting a national package, and a Zoom forum with experts from across the nation. We published a series on school security and mental health. Eau Claire editor Matt Milner provided digital assets and graphics. In additional to the national packages, several newsrooms published their own local enterprise on the topic. More at Idaho Press