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In honor of my colleague Josh Kovner, who died today, I'm going to highlight some of his finest work. I'll start with this beautiful story about an 11-year-old boy with autism: http://projects.courant.com/raising-child-autism/
Also, this deep dive into the dark world of Sandy Hook school shooter Adam Lanza, as revealed by more than a thousand pages of documents the Courant fought hard to expose: https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-sandy-hook-lanza-new-documents-20181204-story.html
Josh and colleague @alainegriffin collaborated on a humane portrait of Lanza's first victim, his mother Nancy, in a documentary produced by @frontlinepbs https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/raising-adam-lanza/
Josh was a tireless advocate for children in state custody and worked relentlessly to ensure that they weren't denied justice, as this story about the death of an intellectually disabled teen shows : https://www.nydailynews.com/hc-news-stunning-lapses-by-dcf-in-matthew-tirado-starvation-death-1212-story.html
Josh was a gutsy reporter who always looked out for society's most vulnerable, whether that was people with mental illness, children in foster care, or people with intellectual disabilities. He wasn't afraid to confront the powerful and he got results: https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-abuse-neglect-developmentally-disabled-investigation-20160524-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3Xia7m3CPPW2jr0CMjFlsUw0S3AWtXf905myrRudR--LILeD6ainI-aoI
Josh was part of the Courant's Pulitzer-winning team that covered the 1998 lottery shootings. His portrait of one of the victims was so moving: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-42
