Temple’s Logan Center gets to crux of complex community issues

Posted by Temple University on November 21, 2023

After just one year, budding journalists are reaping the benefits and further honing their craft through the Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting at Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communication. The center is set to continue and begin new collaborations as it enters its second year of existence.

While the headlines tell a story, they do not tell the entire story. And many times, the news articles that accompany the headlines do not provide any semblance of a solution. For award-winning journalist Yvonne Latty, that’s a problem.

“It is almost like, this horrible thing happens, and the next day, another horrible thing happens, but no ever stops to think about it all,” Latty said. “No one asks, how can we figure out answers that can fix these things? Because it’s not just all on the city to solve these challenges. It’s on all of us.”

That thinking has served as the impetus behind the Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting. Located within Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communication, the Logan Center opened in July 2022 with Latty as its inaugural director.

It has been launched in part thanks to a $1.2 million founding grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation of Berkeley, California, and is designed to focus exclusively on the issues facing Philadelphia and other large American cities, including gun violence, economic inequality, education and health disparities, crumbling infrastructure, and eroding trust in institutions. The Logan Center’s mission is to tell investigative stories driven by the community. The center, which is comprised of a team of Temple students, media partners, neighborhood leaders and community members, is invested in Philadelphia, its neighborhoods and its community.

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