Karen Brown
Karen 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 since for New England Public Radio since 1998. Her pieces have won a number of national awards, including the National Edward R. Murrow Award, Public Radio News Directors, Inc. (PRNDI) Award, and the Erikson Prize for Mental Health Reporting for her body of work on mental illness.
Karen previously worked as a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer in its South Jersey bureau. She earned a Masters of Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996.
She lives with her husband Sean, and twin children, Sam and Lucy, in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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One clinic, Transhealth, marks its first anniversary with more than 1,000 patients. -
While some parts of the country are seeing surges in COVID-19, cases in Massachusetts are down — but not gone. So, with the governor's reopening plan... -
Paying attention to gender differences in why people become addicted to opioids can improve treatment, according to a UMass Amherst study. -
On a recent morning, Irida Kakhtiranova was rolling out a ball of dough on the metallic table in the Unitarian church kitchen in Northampton,...
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A Harvard brain scientist who studies trauma in children is warning of lasting damage to the young migrants who've been separated from their parents at...
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A UMass Amherst nursing professor has been named to a national panel of inventors -- the first nurse to be honored alongside engineers and computer... -
Food scientists at UMass Amherst have come up with a technique they say could make it a lot easier to avoid food poisoning.
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The top editor at the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Greenfield Recorder said Wednesday he was fired for speaking out in favor of higher pay for female... -
The American Red Cross has raised the alert on its blood supply to "critical" -- the last step before "emergency."
