Groundbreaking Boston Globe Series on Life Inside a Boston Neighborhood Published as E-Book

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BOSTON (February 26, 2013) – The Boston Globe’s “68 Blocks” series influenced readers’ perspectives on an important Boston neighborhood, as well as how journalism can be expressed digitally. Now, for the first time, the series that documented life in Bowdoin-Geneva over the course of a year is available as a single compilation in e-book form.

In the kind of project rarely undertaken by a regional newspaper anywhere in the country, journalists gained unprecedented access to gang-involved teens, families of murder victims, police officers and community leaders working with at-risk youth during a year-long immersion.

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