Covering sex trafficking: Journalists can do better

From Columbia Journalism Review Mon Aug 11 2014, 22:34:09

By Lene Sillesen When journalist David McSwane pitched a story about sex trafficking in minors to his editors at the Serasota Herald Tribune in 2012, they were skeptical. As one of his colleagues put it: "People don't want to read about sex with children when they're eating their food." To McSwane, that comment later resonated with a more general attitude toward the issue....

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