Our Comments on a Notable Narrative
Desperate Parents Chase a Stem-Cell Miracle
Author:
Gareth Cook
Source:
Boston Globe
Date:
09/26/2004
Format:
Long feature
 

(registration and/or payment may be required)
This is one of the more clear and useful pieces we've read about stem cell research. It's also strongly narrative.

This piece was part of a package that won a 2005 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting. Cook uses narrative in this piece to show the "real people" who could be helped by advances in stem cell technology. It's a sad story about the parents of an ill boy whose hopes for stem cells outpace their current promise.

spacer
spacer
Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
Lippmann House One Francis Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 495-2237 Fax: (617) 495-8976