Figueroa Street and the Ethical Duty of Care - Columbia Journalism Review

Looking back at a New York Times magazine story to examine what responsible coverage of sex trafficking looks like—and what it doesn’t.

Figueroa Street and the Ethical Duty of Care - Columbia Journalism Review --> b AP Photo / Adobe Stock / Illustration by CJR b Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter . Last fall, the New York Times magazine published a story by Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, a national health reporter, about the commercial sexual exploitation of children on a fifty-block stretch of Figueroa Street in South Los Angeles known as the Blade. To report the piece, Baumgaertner Nunn embedded with vice investigators for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) as they carried out undercover operations. She also interviewed do

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