Compelling, ambitious reads you can’t afford to miss. v John Woodrow Cox was working on a story about a teen who'd opened fire on a South Carolina school playground in 2016 when he glanced up at a TV in The Post newsroom last month and saw that another school shooting was unfolding in Parkland, Fla. "There were aerial shots of kids on gurneys," said Cox, who felt nauseated at the sight. "I started taking some deep breaths." Cox has spent more than a year reporting a series of searing stories on children and gun violence. He knew the damage done at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would not be limited to those killed and injured. The trauma, he said, extends to "hundreds and hundreds of kids in that school — their lives are forever altered. Some of them will never recover." After Parkland, Cox and Steven Rich, The Post's database editor for investigations, worked at a breakneck pace to produce a groundbreaking analysis on school ...
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