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Ashton Marra
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Executive Editor, 100 Days in Appalachia
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By Ashton Marra| 100 Days in Appalachia Verified Storytelling in Appalachia is a craft at the root of who we are. Whether it’s family histories shared around a dinner table, ghost stories shared around a campfire, or the news journalists collect about the issues facing our communities, storytelling is something we as a people cherish. At 100 Days in Appalachia, we have spent more than seven years working to honor that craft – our journalism is an extension of it.
Reporting on Addiction: Countering Misinformation about Addiction, Harm Reduction, Treatment, and Recovery
By Jonathan Stoltman, Ashton Marra, Reed College| Journal of the American Pharmacists Association Verified Misinformation, or the spread of false information, can impact policy and individual health behaviors. Harm reduction practitioners and researchers have seen their work misrepresented in the media to the detriment of people in their community. Media coverage impacts both public opinion and policy, which necessitates that it be informed by the current science and carefully platforms people who can speak to the science.
By Ashton Marra| 100 Days in Appalachia Verified Storytelling in Appalachia is a craft at the root of who we are. Whether it’s family histories shared around a dinner table, ghost stories shared around a campfire, or the news journalists collect about the issues facing our communities, storytelling is something we as a people cherish. At 100 Days in Appalachia, we have spent more than seven years working to honor that craft – our journalism is an extension of it.
Company Info
100 Days in Appalachia
The 2016 election revealed the deep social, economic and political fractures stressing communities —and American discourse — to the breaking point. While the nation's growing rural/urban divide attracts a global audience and a steady stream of analysis in the election's aftermath, in Appalachia we are no strangers to the issues at hand. We are these communities. "100 Days in Appalachia" is an experimental project designed to burst the filter bubble of social news and to narrate the new American landscape from within the heart of a region dubbed "Trump Nation" 100 days at a time. We'll tell the political, economic and human stories of communities that are more complex than national narratives have allowed. This is a collaborative project from West Virginia University's Reed College of Media, West Virginia Public Broadcasting and The Daily Yonder.
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
Founded: 2016