After a public records battle with the Alabama State Board of Midwifery, the board has relented to release records to GateHouse Media. The records were requested in pursuit of a follow-up story to the series on the rise and risk of out-of-hospital births, “Failure to Deliver.” Read our story here.
Lucille Sherman is GateHouse Media’s national data reporter. She works on national, data-driven projects for the company and also helps smaller newspapers with their own data projects.