Jenifer McKim
New England Center for Investigative ReportingJenifer McKim is a senior reporter and senior trainer at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting.
Jenifer McKim is a senior investigative reporter and senior trainer at The New England Center for Investigative Reporting.Her stories on child fatalities and the state Department of Children and Families were awarded a 2014 “Publick Occurrences” award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association. Before joining NECIR in September, 2013, McKim, worked as a social issues and business reporter at the Boston Globe, where she started in 2008. There she received a 2011 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for a story on domestic sex trafficking of minors and a 2nd place nod for the 2013 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism chronicling a federal investigation into a global child pornography network.Prior to joining the Globe, McKim worked on the Investigative Team at the Orange County Register in California where she led a group of reporters to write about lead-tainted imported Mexican candies. The six-part series was a nominated finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. McKim is a 2008 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut. She started her journalism career at the San Juan Star in Puerto Rico and speaks fluent Spanish.
For labor-trafficked immigrants, T-visas are a lifesaving but flawed relief
The GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting spoke to nearly a dozen people in Massachusetts who say they were victims of forced labor, having to sneak down the back stairs to escape or call 911 for help. An ongoing GBH series on labor trafficking has found that those victims are often overlooked and their abusers go unpunished.
