Karen Brown
Reporter/Producer/HostKaren is a radio and print journalist who focuses on health care, mental health, children’s issues, and other topics about the human condition. She has been a full-time radio reporter for NEPM since 1998. Her features and documentaries have won a number of national awards, including the National Edward R. Murrow Award, Public Radio News Directors, Inc. (PRNDI) Award, Third Coast Audio Festival Award, and the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize.
Karen’s work has appeared on NPR, in The New York Times, and other outlets. She previously worked as a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She earned a Masters of Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996.
She can be reached at karen_brown [at] nepm.org.
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The state auditor's report found a dangerous lack of oversight around prescribing strong psychiatric medications for children in state custody.
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Zaccai Curtis' album, "Cubop Lives," was nominated in the Latin Jazz category.
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Several communities across western Massachusetts held events for Veterans Day.
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Question 4 would have allowed psychedelic home-growing and healing centers. Supporters will now focus on decriminalizing psychedelics on a city-by-city basis and urge legislators to eventually take up the issue again.
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A new federal rule change has made methadone more accessible than ever, but many advocates and patients say it should be much easier for patients to receive. Those running the methadone clinics are not so sure.
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UMass Amherst researchers say legal gambling has led to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, but 90% of that comes from problem or at risk gamblers.
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La Pregunta 4 en la Papeleta de Massachusetts legalizaría cuatro tipos de psicodélicos para tratamientos de salud mental.
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Four types of psychedelics, including psilocybin and ayahuasca, would be legalized for individual use, with the intention of providing mental health relief. Oregon and Colorado are the only other states to pass similar legislation.
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Some western Massachusetts farmers say the apple bounty is so good this year they're giving away thousands of pounds of the fruit. That's in stark contrast to last year, when a late frost decimated local apple crops.
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A biomedical engineering professor at UMass Amherst is leading a study to help find biomarkers for the cognitive disease, long before dementia sets in.