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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A new town department in Amherst, Massachusetts — Community Responders for Equity, Safety and Service — now has a director. The department joins several other initiatives in western Massachusetts that offer alternatives to police when an emergency call involves a mental health crisis. -
Orlando Taylor's family says he was suffering from a mental health crisis. City councilors want to prevent the next tragedy. -
Researchers from UMass and Baystate Medical Center compared those who did — and did not — receive buprenorphine after their release. -
Baystate Medical Center in Springfield says the hospital is not equipped for the extra traffic. -
Two small towns in western Massachusetts are ranked among the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the state. But some officials blame a glitch in the...
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A group of seniors in Springfield, Massachusetts, are calling for the removal of the city's police commissioner for what they say is her resistance to... -
People have been making the case for reparations for Black Americans for decades, and there are signs of forward movement.President Joe Biden has… -
People have been making the case for reparations for Black Americans for decades, and there are signs of forward movement.
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The city of Springfield, Massachusetts, will pay $6.5 million to a man wrongfully incarcerated for almost three decades. -
Home buying and selling slowed down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, but realtors in western Massachusetts say the market has picked up.
