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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Many meatless burgers have less protein, higher fat, and more sodium than regular beef burgers. -
The Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton has its first contract since workers unionized in 2018. -
A Springfield police officer acquitted of excessive force and abusive interrogation remains suspended from his job without pay. But officials haven't ruled out his reinstatement. -
UMass Amherst scientists have helped develop a wearable sensor they say can tell whether someone is taking opioid drugs. -
Cara Rintala, who was accused of killing her wife in 2010, is out on bail – two months after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court vacated her 2016… -
When the state of Massachusetts takes children away from their parents because of alleged neglect or abuse, they are supposed to try to keep siblings… -
Addiction specialists and lawmakers testified Monday on a Massachusetts bill that would end many cases of involuntary drug treatment in jail.Massachusetts… -
Updated at 2:41 p.m.Union members at the Daily Hampshire Gazette newspaper in Northampton, Massachusetts, are "working to rule" to protest the potential… -
Updated at 1:35 p.m. Amherst College has announced it will no longer consider what's called "legacy" when deciding whether to admit a student."Legacy"… -
A state-commissioned study has found a significant number of previously compulsive gamblers returned to problem behavior after casinos opened in…
