I don’t often tout the work of friends of mine, and Sheri Fink is a friend of mine. And I don’t usually point to stories on the front page of The New York Times, because I think most Tracker readers will find them without my help.
But Fink’s front-page piece today is something you must read. It tells what she saw and heard on a day she spent at a Liberian Ebola clinic. Her story quietly, and powerfully, brings us right to the doorstep of the Ebola epidemic in a way I haven’t seen before. It’s an extraordinary and horrifying piece.
Fink, you might recall, won a Pulitzer Prize for her investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital that was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina. In that reporting and in today’s piece, she shows us how thorough reporting and measured storytelling can deliver stories with powerful impact.
It’s not as easy as she makes it seem.
-Paul Raeburn
Hear, hear.