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 pandemic has affected every person’s life, but there is consensus that communities of color — especially Black and Hispanic — have been affected the… -
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Members of a policing review commission in Northampton, Massachusetts, presented their case to the City Council on Tuesday for a new city department to… -
A commission in Northampton, Massachusetts, wants a new city department to take on many of the tasks police do now. The Northampton Policing Review…
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A former Smith College employee says she has filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination charging a hostile environment for… -
Updated at 10:59 a.m.As one of western Massachusetts' major newspapers operates on bare bones, its staff hosted a public forum this week.After a series of… -
Western Massachusetts legislators are urging patience for those newly-eligible for the vaccine — but they're also frustrated at the state's glitchy… -
A coalition of health and community leaders wants Massachusetts to get more vaccines to people of color.COVID-19 has affected Black and Hispanic residents…
