Hard-won lessons from reporting on the long shadow of violence in Baltimore [ReportingOnHealth.org]

The Freddie Gray tragedy and Baltimore’s ensuing riots and murdersthrust the national-media spotlight on the city this past summer. Anyone who has seen an episode of “The Wire,” the venerated HBO show created by a former Baltimore Sun police reporter, already knew of the city’s infamous reputation for body counts and broken lives. But beyond that well-trodden ground lies another story that has drawn far less attention — the enduring impacts of violence on the children and families who aren’t the first-person victims of crime, but suffer its horrible effects for years afterwards, often in the form of trauma, stress, or the heavy burdens of caregiving.

[For more of this story, written by Ryan White, go to http://www.reportingonhealth.o...w-violence-baltimore]