Backstage
Inside a story a year in the making
Sometimes when you’re a journalist you have to move fast. And sometimes a story calls for a lot more time. Jaeah Lee spent 17 months reporting her profile of Gwen Woods, whose son Mario was shot and killed by San Francisco police in December 2015. She set out to tell the story of what happens for a mother like Gwen after the news moves on. I asked her about it.