Stockton's pathbreaking former mayor has learned a few lessons about storytelling [centerforhealthjournalism.org]
By Ryan White, Center for Health Journalism, April 13, 2021 You might say that the political education of Michael Tubbs bears a striking similarity to that of many ambitious young journalists. An early faith in the power and rigor of data is gradually absorbed into an even greater belief in the power of storytelling. All the best numbers fizzle without a story that makes you feel their human weight. When Tubbs became Stockton, California’s first Black mayor in 2016 at age 26, the narrative...