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Deputy Director of Policy, Executive Chamber of @GovKathyHochul • Teaching @columbiamsph & @NYUWagner • Bi-Nuevo: New Mexican in NYC

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Ted Alcorn’s Biography

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TED ALCORN is Deputy Director of Policy in the Office of the Governor of New York.

He also teaches courses on gun violence, criminal justice, and policy research at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and NYU's Wagner School of Public Service.

He was raised in Albuquerque and was previously a freelance journalist reporting on health and justice for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among other publicatio…

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

States Now Have to Decide How to Spend Meta’s Settlement Billions

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| The New York Times Verified
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. States Now Have to Decide How to Spend Meta’s Settlement Billions Previous agreements with the tobacco and opioid industries show the difficulty of putting the money in the right hands. The Meta campus in Menlo Park, Calif. The company’s settlement with several states has few strings attached.Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times Oct.
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Black bears’ very bad year

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| Abiquiu News
Image courtesy of Abiquiu News ByTed Alcorn Courtesy of NM In Depth Bearsin trees. Bears nabbednear schools. Bears electrocuted onlight poles. Bears hiton highways. In New Mexico this year, human-bear encounters have made inescapable news. And data kept by the Department of Wildlife show just what an outlier it’s been. New Mexico has already killed more bears in “conflicts” with people this year than in any 12-month period on record, and the season has seven months to go.
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Black bears’ very bad year

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| Taos News Verified
Bears in trees. Bears nabbed near schools. Bears electrocuted on light poles. Bears hit on highways. In New Mexico this year, human-bear encounters have made inescapable news. And data kept by the Department of Wildlife show just what an outlier it’s been. New Mexico has already killed more bears in “conflicts” with people this year than in any 12-month period on record, and the season has seven months to go. From April 1 to Sept.
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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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