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Rob Waters
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Editor and Writer, MindSite News
Oakland
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Biography
Rob Waters is the founding editor of MIndSite News, a digital publication focused on mental health that launched in Sept. 2021. An award-winning journalist and travel writer, Waters has been writing about health, science, public health, criminal justice and world culture for more than 30 years. He write frequently for Health Affairs and has been a contributor to STAT, Kaiser Health News/California Healthline, Craftsmanship Quarterly, NEO.LIFE and other publications. He covered biotechnology for Bloomberg News, was a senior editor at WebMD, contributing editor to the Psychotherapy Networker and editor-in-chief of the Tenderloin Times, a four-language San Francisco community newspaper. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Mother Jones, the Atlantic, BusinessWeek, San Francisco magazine, Salon.com, Sierra, Columbia Journalism Review, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. He co-authored From Boys to Men, published in 2004 by Simon & Schuster. He is based in Oakland and is a member of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto.
Mental health, Craftsmanship , Health , Travel , World Culture , Science, Urban Affairs, Craftsmanship , Health , Travel , World Culture , Science
Government, economics, travel, and politics.
Content
By Art Levine, Rob Waters| MindSite News Verified ‘People are going to die’ if cuts continues, mental health workers warnAs Elon Musk and his young engineers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have purged thousands of federal employees, they’ve insisted they are only terminating low-performing and probationary workers and that their actions won’t impede the ability of government agencies to do their work, but rather make them more efficient.
By Ben Seal Verified, Rob Waters| MindSite News Verified ‘Little Scandinavia’ aims to cut recidivism by emulating world’s most humane – and effective – prisonsThis story was orginally published as “How to Build a Better Prison” in the November 2024 issue of Philadelphia magazine and online. Inside the imposing beige walls of the Pennsylvania state correctional institution in Chester, a suburb of Philadelphia, there is a fish tank whose inhabitants are part of something bigger than themselves.
By Gina Jimenez, Rob Waters| MindSite News Verified A pro-choice national directory links clients with vetted therapists to discuss abortionThe Texas woman been out of the psychiatric hospital only four months when she learned she was pregnant. Just 21 years old and struggling with bipolar disorder, her mental health had collapsed after losing her job as a waiter.
Company Info
MindSite News
A long-festering mental health crisis has been building in the United States for many years, created by a fractured health and mental health system, a pattern of discrimination and bias against communities of color and other disadvantaged groups, and a historic and profoundly damaging trend of criminalizing mental illness. The failure to bring to scale effective prevention, early intervention and treatment programs has left millions of people struggling without the services that could help them. These problems exploded during the pandemic, with dramatic impact on the most vulnerable groups. It is the mission of MindSite News, a nonprofit digital publication that launched in late 2021, to cover this terrain and amplify awareness of these issues by the public and policymakers. As the only news site dedicated exclusively to reporting on mental health, we focus our work in two vital areas: 1) Investigating and exposing the failings and flaws of our fractured mental health system. 2) Bringing to light innovative solutions that have the potential to address these issues and bring effective programs and policies to scale. The mental health crisis in the U.S. has been unfolding at a time when newspapers and other media are downsizing, eliminating journalism jobs. MindSite New is helping to fill this void by creating a national vehicle for rigorous, in-depth reporting on mental health, bringing focus, expertise and deep journalistic experience to an area of growing public interest and concern.
Oakland, California, United States
Founded: 2021