Prevention Spotlight: Investigative Reporting on Excessive Alcohol Use

Webinar Description

Join the Northwest PTTC for this Spotlight Presentation, during which Independent journalist Ted Alcorn will present top-line findings of his ongoing, multipart investigation of alcohol’s impact on the state of New Mexico, where drinking kills at a faster clip than anywhere else in the country. He has also reported for the New York Times on alcohol mortality nationwide and policy changes pursued in Oregon. He will also provide insight into his reporting process and his views about the respective roles that journalists, advocates, and government officials play in advancing measures that improve population health and wellbeing.

Objectives

Describe the outsize impact alcohol has on the state of New Mexico, some of the factors driving it, and evidence-based measures to reduce its toll
Explain the role that investigative journalism has played in focusing public attention and galvanizing legislative action
Identify potential obstacles and remaining gaps to achieving progress in reducing alcohol-related harms

Webinar Recording

Prevention Spotlight: Investigative Reporting on Excessive Alcohol Use Recording

Additional Resources

Alcohol Awareness Toolkit, Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center
Blind Drunk Series Main Page, New Mexico In Depth
Blind Drunk Resources for Reporters, New Mexico In Depth
Rethink the Drink, Oregon Health Authority

Presenter

Ted Alcorn, is an independent journalist whose reporting on health and justice has appeared in numerous publications. An adjunct at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, he was previously the founding research director of Everytown For Gun Safety and a policy analyst in the New York City mayor’s office. He earned graduate degrees at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and their School for Advanced International Studies, and lived in Beijing, China as a Henry Luce scholar.