New Mexico In Depth recently published an investigative series, “Blind Drunk,” documenting the toll alcohol takes on the state.
The investigation was sweeping. But whatever your beat or focus area, alcohol remains a huge, largely uncovered story with impacts on health, crime, policing, business, culture, or politics.
For reporters as well as others who want to learn more, this briefing by reporter Ted Alcorn will provide an overview of the problem and a basic toolkit to get started with your own investigation into alcohol harms in your community. There will also be time for discussion, questions and answers.
This event is free. Register today and join us on Thursday, August 18 at noon, Mountain Time.
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Ted Alcorn is a writer raised in New Mexico whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post Magazine, among other publications. For New Mexico In Depth he’s investigated how the state’s prisons have ignored an epidemic of hepatitis C, how Albuquerque stood up its branch of non-police emergency response, and how non-profit hospitals shortchange community health. Follow him at @tedalcorn.
New Mexico In Depth is an award-winning, nonprofit media outlet that produces investigative, data-rich stories with an eye on solutions that can be a catalyst for change.