DDN series and special reports

  • Dayton Daily News and Journal Herald series published before 1990 can be found in the old clip file system. See librarians for assistance.
  • Series and special projects from 1990 to 1996 can be found in the Vutext text archive. See our text archive help pagesfor how to search for series.
  • The 1995 Military Secrets series is available in the library's Page Archive, and it can also be seen as part of a 1997 website design project which involved a group of Miami University students.
  • As of Jan. 1 1997, series and special projects will be listed here. When possible, we have links to full pages from the series.

    1997 series and special reports:

    Jan. 12, 1997 -- A "Military Secrets" report by Russell Carollo, Jeff Nesmith and Elliot Jaspin reveals that the U.S. Army consistently treated rape as a lesser crime warranting relatively light punishment compared to that of civilian courts. The report was based on an analysis of a once-secret computer database of Army prosecutions for sexual offenses.
    Jan. 19-21, 1997

    "Fixing Welfare: Rural Ohio""

    Three-part series by Mary McCarty. The series looks at people on welfare in rural counties and how their lives may be affected by welfare reform measures passed by Congress.

    See the Page Archive for full pages from the series.

    Feb. 2-4, 1997

    "The Shape of the Nation:
    The Weight Crisis in America"

    by Jim DeBrosse.
    March 23-24, 1997

    "Violence in the Workplace"

    A two-part series by Debra Jasper, focused on how companies often fail to properly screen applicants who have violent backgrounds.
    April 27-28

    "Prison Grays"

    A two-part series by Tom Beyerlein on the aging of the nation's prison population.

    Complete pages of this series are available in the DNI Library page archive.