Lisa Pane, national beats reporter, and Meghan Hoyer, Washington data team editor, delivered an authoritative story that quantified just how much bloodshed there was around the U.S. in 2019, harnessing the power of an AP collaboration and database access. The pair determined that there were more mass killings in 2019 than any year since at least the 1970s. They also did a data distribution that allowed newspapers to localize stories, and Pane tracked down a survivor of one of the killings to put a human face on the story. https://bit.ly/2Nd5M0F
AP analysis reveals record year for mass killings
Catalina Saenz wipes tears from her face as she visits a makeshift memorial on Aug. 6, 2019, near the scene of an Aug. 3 mass shooting that left 22 people dead at a Walmart shopping complex in El Paso, Texas.
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