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Mary Meehan

@TheMaryMeehan

Mary Meehan, a 2016 Nieman Fellow, is a reporter for Ohio Valley ReSource (OVR), a regional journalism collaborative covering economic and social change in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. Based at OVR member station WEKU in Richmond, Kentucky, she covers health. Previously, she was a writer at the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Sound Business: Mary Meehan, NF ’16, masters the art of storytelling on radio after a long career in print

In Powell County, Kentucky,  a nurse, a preacher, and a physician assistant challenged deep religious beliefs to save their community. In the process they also taught me both the importance…