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Ted Alcorn

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Covers:  Justice, health, metro, arts
Policy Director for @VitalCityNYC • Words in @NYtimes, @NMinDepth • Teaching @columbiamsph & @NYUWagner • Bi-Nuevo: New Mexican in NYC

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Ted Alcorn’s Biography

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TED ALCORN is the policy director for Vital City, and his journalism on health and justice has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among other publications. His 2022 series Blind Drunk, on New Mexico's worst-in-the-nation crisis of alcohol deaths, prompted legislative change and won awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Institute for Nonprofit News. He began his reporting career while li…

Ted Alcorn’s Journalist Portfolio

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Blind Drunk

Blind Drunk

Alcohol is killing New Mexicans at a higher rate than anywhere else in the country - yet the state has largel…

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Shoot, Don't Kill

Shoot, Don't Kill

Weapons-maker Byrna is touting "less lethal" guns for self-defense. Can the company find a market in a countr…

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Why New Yorkers Still ❤️ Film

Why New Yorkers Still ❤️ Film

Projectionists are busier than ever, as they serve a demand for obscure 35-millimeter titles, nostalgia and t…

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Who Will Hold the Police Accountable?

Who Will Hold the Police Accountable?

On an unseasonably warm February afternoon in 2017, Jocques Clemmons was driving through the James A. Cayce H…

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The Met Reinvents Itself, Yet the Ushers Remain the Same

The Met Reinvents Itself, Yet the Ushers Remain the Same

Change has come to the Metropolitan Opera House. The largest repertory opera in the world is in the throes of…

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The Judge Who Keeps People Out of Jail

The Judge Who Keeps People Out of Jail

In northern New Mexico, a district court judge has a radical approach to addressing addiction

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Articles

How to Avoid One of the Deadliest Forms of Skin Cancer Original

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By Ted Alcorn Verified
| The New York Times Verified
How to Avoid One of the Deadliest Forms of Skin Cancer We asked experts what to know about melanoma symptoms, treatment and prevention. Credit...Getty Images When spring turns to summer and warm weather lures more people outside, skin cancer may be at most a distant concern. But experts said it’s important to take the risk seriously. The ultraviolet rays in sunlight are a leading risk factor for skin cancer, which will affect one in five Americans over their lifetime.
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A New Lifeline Helps Inmates Transition to Life Out of Prison

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By Ted Alcorn Verified, Brian Frank
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Health|A New Lifeline Helps Inmates Transition to Life Out of Prison https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/health/medicaid-jail-prison-healh-care.html You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. When Jon Desantis was released after a six months stint in jail last September, he had lost many of the moorings of a stable life.
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A New Lifeline Helps Inmates Transition to Life Outside the Bars

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Awards

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Solutions Journalism Network Health Fellow

2020

The fellows will report on ways the U.S. can learn from solutions to improving health and wellbeing from around the world.

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Association of Health Care Journalists Health Performance Reporting Fellow

2021

The program, supported by The Commonwealth Fund for the 12th year in a row, is designed to help journalists understand and report on the performance of local health care markets and the U.S. health system in its entirety.

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USC Annenberg Impact Fund

2022 - Health Equity and Health Systems
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