Janine Weisman

No one has ever been arrested in connection with the homicide of 19-year-old Diane Drake, whose body was found on Easton’s Beach in Newport on March 22, 1980. I successfully requested FBI records on this cold case and told the story of a breakdown in communication between federal and local law enforcement agencies as an example of a situation that could be helped with a proposed statewide cold case unit.

My front page investigative journalism story for The Newport Daily News also ran on the front page of The Providence Journal.

"It was a moment, but a gift." A social worker shares the story of how a hospice patient with advanced dementia responded to music.

Scenes from 2021 at HopeHealth, a leading provider of hospice, palliative and home care services in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. I paired clips from footage of various events and staff I recorded throughout the year and with royalty free instrumental "Rain on Window" to edit this year end video in Canva.

I asked Chaplain Olivia Dutra to record herself reciting her original poem as a voice memo and then edited it with royalty free holiday music in Hindenburg Journalist. I uploaded track to Canva and created panels to accompany Olivia's excellent narration.

A history professor once told me the tagline for her approach to her field used to be “It seemed like a good idea at the time.” Then she evolved to “You can't make this shit up.”
Heather Ann Thompson laughed when I told her this in a recent telephone interview. This latter view received a heavyweight endorsement from her Pulitzer Prize winning 2016 book, “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy.”
Thompson's account of a pivotal period in the history of mass incar...

A study led by researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health found that using tuned LED lighting cut in half the number of sleep disturbances among older residents in long-term care.

Hasbro Children's Hospital pediatricians Dr. Amy Goldberg and Dr. Stephanie Ruest offer their perspective on the decline of reports of child abuse and neglect to the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rhode Island State Police Corporal Heather Palumbo offers perspective for the strange phenomenon of declining domestic violence arrests at the same time 911 domestic violence calls are increasing.

The late retired U.S. Navy Capt. Shirley Hill was an extraordinary woman in her own right. But her accomplishments are even more noteworthy with context. Here's an example of what journalists can do when writing about the achievements of a Black person in their community — provide the backdrop in which the person succeeded. Only 40 of the Navy’s 3,300 captains today are black women, or just 1.2 percent. #BlackLivesMatter

Providence Business News profile of CCS Presentation Systems, 1st place, New England Fastest Growing Companies 2020 ($250,000 – $5M)