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Karen Brown

@kbrownreports

Karen Brown has been a public radio reporter for WFCR, the NPR affiliate in Amherst, Massachusetts since 1998. In her work as a daily reporter, she has gravitated toward stories involving health and mental health, doing a few radio documentaries that have looked at refugees’ trauma and trauma related to mental health issues.

How to Do an Interview—When Trauma Is the Topic

‘It’s just a totally different landscape when dealing with someone who’s been traumatized. They don’t know the rules, and what’s so essential in these interviews is to give the person…