High quality health reporting

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was recognized today with a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for its series on a rare medical case at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The series, "One in a Million," told the story of a little boy with a mysterious illness, and the researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin who eventually sequenced the boy's entire genome to find a diagnosis. The Journal Sentinel team used a mix of written and multimedia pieces to explain the complexities of this emerging science. This piece not only tells a compelling story, but also serves as an example of quality health reporting. It is not enough just to tell the story, but effective reporting, explains the story and places the story within a broader scientific context. I am very proud to work at a university where such innovative research is taking place. And I'm proud to subscribe to a newspaper that is willing to invest the time and effort to tell these compelling science stories.