GBONEWS: Latino Seniors Fearing ICE Raids; Immigrant Journalists at Threat; Devoted U.S. Getting older Employees DOGED; Getting older in America Doc on PBS; Vietnamese Elders After 50 Years; Oh-Oh, Social Safety Information; Language Obstacles a Well being Threat; Remoted Older Males Socializing

Concern: 32.8
 

Posted: Might 1, 2025 at 3:55 pm

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Might 2, 2025 — Quantity 32, Quantity 8

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In This Concern: No, Mr. MAGA, you’re imagined to Give Again, Not Get again.

1. BREAKING TRUTHS

*** “Getting older in Worry: ICE Raids’ Affect on Latino Seniors,”  by Estefania Arellano-Bermudez, El Central Hispanic Information; 

*** “Amid Deportations, Immigrant Journalists Face Heightened Dangers for Their Reporting,” by Peter Schurmann, American Group Media; 

*** Devoted ACL Getting older Employees DOGED;

*** “Haven’t established your on-line Social Safety account? Do it now,” by Mark Miller.

2. THE STORYBOARD

*** Getting older in America: Survive or Thrive on PBS in Might (A 50-Yr Replace on Dr. Robert Butler’s Pulitzer Successful Guide); 

*** “A 50-Yr Shadow” of Vietnam by Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Science Journal; 

*** “How language obstacles amongst older adults improve dangers in well being care system,” by Ellen Eldridge, Georgia Public Broadcasting; 

*** “Learn how to become older males to socialize is a puzzle. A bunch referred to as ROMEO is one reply,” by Ashley Milne-Tyte, NPR Information.

3. GETTING THE DOPE ON DOGE: *** Protection Ideas From Veteran Journalists John Wasik and Trudy Lieberman. 

1. BREAKING TRUTHS 

*** “Getting older in Worry: How I.C.E. Raids Affect the Psychological Well being of Latino Seniors,”  by Estefania Arellano-Bermudez, El Central Hispanic Information (Might 1, 2025, additionally in Spanish: “Envejecer con miedo: cómo las redadas de ICE afectan la salud psychological de los latinos.” ) 

The Lede: “On a Friday morning in Southwest Detroit, about 15 seniors gathered for a scorching lunch on the Latin American for Social and Financial Growth (LASED) – Senior Heart, a welcoming area the place older adults collect for social actions, and wellness packages within the coronary heart of the Mexican neighborhood.

However in current months, a surge in immigration deportations has unsettled that sense of security, leaving many older Latinos dwelling in worry. ‘I’ve seen character modifications, habits, and complaints of no sleep,’ mentioned Guadalupe Lara, director of LASED Senior Wellness Applications. ‘However we encourage those that also come. It actually affected everyone on the middle.’”

The Crux: “Lara seen the behavioral modifications after President Donald Trump signed a flurry of government orders instantly following his inauguration in January. This included one on Enhanced Immigration Enforcement, fulfilling his marketing campaign promise to ship Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers throughout the U.S. to extend deportations in immigrant communities. . .  Whereas tales about staff being picked up made headlines, there was no reporting or public conversations that centered on senior residents when it got here to ICE raids.”

The Affect: “Dr. William Lopez is a medical assistant professor on the College of Michigan Faculty of Public Well being and the writer of Separated: Household and Group within the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid. 

He mentioned, “ ‘Older adults in communities are sometimes taken care of by their relations. When these relations are frightened about driving or frightened about exhibiting identification at locations like a pharmacy, once they’re going to fill a prescription, that additionally impacts the well being of these older adults.’ Lopez defined, ‘ICE raids disrupt the entire household unit, typically leaving seniors emotionally and financially destabilized. . . A rise in ICE exercise has led many immigrants to keep away from important medical care and grocery purchasing.’”

Service Resolution: “As a strategy to handle isolation, the senior middle has needed to pivot in its method. Days that had been as soon as stuffed with Domino’s and loteria now incorporate wellness checks.” 

*** “Amid Deportations, Immigrant Journalists Face Heightened Dangers for Their Reporting,” by Peter Schurmann, American Group Media (previously New America Media, April 24, 2025): The Dek — Journalists within the U.S. with short-term visas, inexperienced playing cards or DACA worry their reporting might compromise their standing because the Trump administration intensifies its immigration and media crackdown.

The Lede: “In late March Clavel Rangel was in Toronto for a journalism convention. Whereas there, she reported on the Trump administration’s deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, which is when she started getting texts a couple of proposed U.S. journey ban on Venezuelans. Rangel, a inexperienced card holder initially from Venezuela, says she feared her reporting may jeopardize her standing because the Trump administration intensifies its deportation marketing campaign.” 

In a Nutshell: “’The federal government mentioned many, many instances that they’re gang members, and we mentioned no, they don’t seem to be, we don’t have any proof that they’re,’ remembers Rangel, a contract journalist dwelling in Miami. ‘And so, I started to marvel if I’m at risk due to that.’ Rangel is amongst a rising variety of immigrants within the US involved about their standing as the federal government targets even these with legitimate visas and documentation for deportation.”

Double Jeopardy:  ‘I got here right here [to the United States] as a result of I felt like this can be a free area to proceed doing journalism,’ she famous, describing the mounting threats she confronted due to her reporting on corruption in Venezuela’s southern Amazon area. . . . America’s press freedom report has plummeted to a historic low, per Reporters With out Borders. . . Flavie Fuentes with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press says her workplace is fielding common calls from retailers involved over the more and more treacherous authorized panorama.” 

A Professional’s Tip: “Stephen Yale-Loehr, a retired professor of apply at Cornell Regulation Faculty who labored 40 years as an immigration lawyer, advised that journalists within the U.S. on short-term visas, inexperienced playing cards, or DACA [who write commentaries critical of President Trump or his administration] ought to “carry documentation with them always, and think about burner telephones when touring overseas “so you might be much less more likely to be harassed if you return.’” 

Threat and Dedication: “Estafania Bermudez, a bilingual Detroit-based reporter and DACA recipient, has lined the affect of this yr’s immigration crackdowns, together with ICE raids focusing on the town’s Latino neighborhood. ‘When the story is about ICE raids . . . editors go to the reporter who has DACA and a extra rooted perspective,’ she says. ‘It’s straightforward to place that particular person on the market to cowl it. Nevertheless it additionally means placing your self at larger danger.’”

“For her half, Rangel insists she’s dedicated to the work regardless of the dangers. ‘I feel it’s extra necessary to defend free expression right here, as a result of should you can assure free expression within the U.S., it’s doable to empower modifications in different nations.’” 

Editor’s Word: Clavel Rangel and Estafania Bermudez talked about on this article have each obtained Journalists in Getting older Fellowships from GBONews.org’s writer, the Journalists Community on Generations and the Gerontological Society of America.

*** Devoted ACL Getting older Employees DOGED: “We had been all there to seek out options to issues that in the end trigger folks to finish up in nursing houses. All of us lived that mission daily.” These had been the dismayed phrases of Rohmteen Mokhtari, a Public Affairs Specialist on the U.S. Administration for Group Residing (ACL), on studying that his company had been DOGE-dashed by Elon Musk’s minions. 

He defined, in his “first-ever” LinkedIn put up in mid-April that the Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS) introduced plans to disband ACL, which consolidated the federal businesses on growing old and incapacity, was to break up up its packages amongst different businesses. He added, “Just a few days after that, roughly half of ACL’s workers, together with my total group, obtained discount in pressure notices. I’ve been positioned on administrative depart and my final day is June 2.”

In his put up, quoted right here with permission, Mokhtari conceded that there’s there may be “a lot fallacious” with the company’s “bureaucratic and incremental” programs, nonetheless, he emphasised, “We had been all there to seek out options to issues that in the end trigger folks to finish up in nursing houses. All of us lived that mission daily.”

He added, “ACL by no means had the facility or assets to ‘repair’ these programs.” He pressured, “the folks I work with had been decided to do every thing they might to make issues higher for the communities we served. . . , whether or not by direct providers like meals (“meals on wheels” is the factor we fund that everybody’s heard of), by serving to folks navigate difficult programs like Medicaid, or by talking as much as form the insurance policies of different businesses.” 

Mokhtari added, “I’m hopeful that our packages will proceed, however what I worry will likely be misplaced is the energy that got here from these connections in addition to that seat on the federal choice making desk which was used to verify they lived experiences of individuals with disabilities and older adults weren’t forgotten. The bizarre factor about federal service is that a lot of the work we do won’t ever be seen by, or recognized to, those that profit from it. I suppose that’s what makes it really easy for federal packages and staff to be demonized. However . . . what we constructed right here over the past 13 years was actually particular.” 

*** “Haven’t established your on-line Social Safety account? Do it now,” by Mark Miller, Retirement Revised (Feb. 19, 2025): The Dek – “With DOGE on the SSA, it’s an excellent time to obtain your information.” Miller, additionally the New York Occasions’main Sunday Enterprise “Retiring” columnist on Social Safety and Medicare, warns, “I’ve been advising readers for years to arrange a free account on the Social Safety Administration (SSA) web site. Your account gives 24/7 entry to an announcement that initiatives your future advantages, and claiming it helps guard in opposition to identification theft—scammers can pose as you and claim your advantages.

Oh-Oh: “The SSA stopped mailing out profit statements a couple of decade in the past, besides for people age 60 or older who haven’t arrange a web-based account. For most individuals, the one strategy to entry the assertion is on-line. Now, I’ve another excuse to suggest a web-based SSA account. Elon Musk’s DOGE workers is probing into SSA information. . . . Is your information in danger? I’d prefer to assume it’s not, however this looks like an excellent time to play it protected.”

Additionally: See Miller’s Feb. 26 evaluation, “Right here’s what GOP Medicaid cuts would imply for older adults.”  

2. THE STORYBOARD 

*** Getting older in America: Survive or Thrive on PBS in Might: The Dek – In contrast to many media glosses of points in growing old, this hourlong documentary, arriving simply in time for Older Individuals Month, easily—and at instances touchingly—gives viewers with an considerate overview of many prime public coverage challenges regarding the fast growing old of America. 

Award-winning veteran documentary producers, Neil Steinberg and Mark Jonathan Harris (with three documentary Oscars), introduced in Martin Sheen to relate this system. Most primarily, this system is a becoming tribute to the late Robert N. Butler, MD, the primary director of the Nationwide Institute on Getting older (NIA), and whose guide Why Survive? Being Previous in America, gained a 1976 Pulitzer Prize. Interview clips of Butler, who coined the time period “ageism,” spotlight the movie. 

Getting older in America deftly alternates the voices of well-chosen elders and caregivers, with such specialists as UCLA’s Fernando Torres-Gil, Ph.D., the first U.S, Assistant Secretary of Getting older (1993-1997), and a current commentator for GBONews; former AARP CEO, Jo Ann Jenkins; and NIA Director Richard Hodes, MD. Showing as a consulting producer on the doc is Age Wave’s Ken Dychtwald, PhD. 

Sections additionally introduce viewers to established fashions for change, which supply options to looming issues, such because the PACE packages for built-in eldercare, that can solely worsen with out important public coverage funding. Such packages not solely protect the dignity of older adults, however they’ve proved to avoid wasting billions of {dollars}. To learn extra concerning the documentary, see Wealthy Eisenberg’s assessment on the PBS Subsequent Avenue web site (Might 1, 2025).

The manufacturing is airing on PBS and plenty of of its native affiliate stations all through Might. Right here’s a hyperlink to the schedule of nationwide and particular person station showings across the county. Particulars about this system are on this Press Package. Gen Beat reporters concerned with seeing a screener and probably interviewing Neil Steinberg might ship requests through the web site contact type. 

*** “A 50-YEAR SHADOW,” by Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Science Journal (April 24, 2025): The Dek – “To know the lasting results of battle, researchers look to those that lived by the Vietnam Battle as teenagers.” 

The Lede: “Nguyen Minh lived by struggle for the primary 18 years of his life. Rising up within the Quẚng Bình province of North Vietnam, a area that skilled among the most intense bombing and artillery assaults throughout the Vietnam Battle, Nguyen remembers instances when he and his siblings fled their village to flee the explosions—as soon as to the forest, one other time to a canyon within the mountains. . . ‘I can nonetheless recall the heartbreaking moments when a few of my classmates had been killed in these air raids,’ Nguyen says.”

The Analysis: “Greater than 50 years later, Nguyen is learning the bodily and emotional legacy of experiences like his. A sociologist who retired in 2023 from the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute for Household and Gender Research, he has been serving to College of Utah sociologist Kim Korinek perceive how experiencing the struggle early in life, as he did, has influenced the well being and well-being of older folks in Vietnam in the present day. Launched in 2018, the Vietnam Well being and Getting older Examine (VHAS) has already yielded new insights into the difficult well being impacts of struggle.”

Some Findings: “The researchers have discovered, as an example, that serving within the army is linked to larger resilience in later life, and that individuals’s age once they lived by struggle can form its later impacts. The research can be a corrective. ‘This was a struggle that was seen by the lens of Individuals, Korinek says. But estimates counsel some 60 Vietnamese died for each one U.S. soldier, she says.”

What’s Completely different: “Most research of the aftermath of struggle have surveyed refugees, U.S. veterans, or survivors in Europe, says Patrick Heuveline, a social demographer on the College of California, Los Angeles who research the impacts of battle in Cambodia. The International South has been largely missed. ‘It’s necessary to diversify the experiences we research,’ he says.”

Girls: “Gender additionally appeared to find out how folks processed the struggle. Few girls within the research had served within the army, however they did every thing from guiding their households by pressured evacuations to caring for the wounded to restocking arms and meals on the frontlines. Girls ‘actually had a proximity to the loss of life and ache that we don’t admire,’ Korinek says.”

*** “How language obstacles amongst older adults improve dangers in well being care system,” by Ellen Eldridge, Georgia Public Broadcasting (April 17, 2025, article, plus 4-minute audio): The Dek — “Language obstacles are placing older adults in danger within the well being care system. With out an advocate, Georgians who can’t communicate or perceive English properly usually tend to undergo abuse and neglect.”

The Lede: “Luz Ospina spent 38 days in a long-term acute care facility final yr. She was solely imagined to be there lengthy sufficient to wean off a ventilator after an Atlanta hospital discharged her. The 73-year-old was identified with myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular illness, after a visit to the emergency room a couple of days after Christmas 2023. ‘That led to respiratory failure,’ mentioned Ospina’s daughter, Linda Perez. . . Her mom wasn’t bettering within the long-term care facility, and he or she couldn’t clarify why due to a language barrier. ‘Me sentí bastante abandonar,’ Ospina mentioned. ‘I felt deserted,’ Perez translated.”

The Dilemma: “Regardless of legal guidelines requiring educated interpreters, medical doctors there spoke solely in English. ‘There was one particular person perhaps that made a small effort to attempt to talk along with her, however the norm was no communication in Spanish,’ Perez says. Ospina was left with little greater than physique language, and her psychological well being declined.”

Unsafe: “Perez insisted the ability present interpretation providers, ‘and so they introduced a telephone with a cable that was so brief that you simply couldn’t even get the telephone near the affected person.’ Then, Ospina’s chart didn’t match what Perez was seeing. ‘After I learn the stories it’s like, “Affected person is okay. She’s advantageous. She’s advantageous,” and he didn’t even use the interpretation line,’ she mentioned. Then, her mom was [wrongly] prescribed anti-anxiety remedy. . . ‘She may have died. . . ‘There must be safeguards,” she mentioned.’”  

The Wider Concern: “Virtually 1.5 million Georgia residents communicate a language aside from English at residence, in accordance with Census information, and underneath Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act, well being care services should present interpretation providers. Plus, research present that older adults with language obstacles are at elevated danger of hospital readmission.

Translation: “Sung Yeon Choimorrow, with the Nationwide Asian Pacific American Girls’s Discussion board, mentioned translation providers aren’t as frequent as they need to be, and whereas it’s robust sufficient to seek out Spanish translation providers, her mother and father communicate Korean. . .  Greater than 100 completely different languages are spoken inside america by descendants from the Asian continent. 

*** “Learn how to become older males to socialize is a puzzle. A bunch referred to as ROMEO is one reply,” by Ashley Milne-Tyte, NPR Information (April 24, 2025, article with 4-minute audio): 

The Lede: “Self-reliance is a cherished American trait, and males specifically embrace it. Many have been raised to be robust, within the old school sense — to not present emotion and to not lean on others. However that may make it tough to supply older males assist once they want it.”

This Previous Maine: “Jess Maurer is aware of this properly. She’s the chief director of the Maine Council on Getting older. Maine is the nation’s oldest state, with 23% of its inhabitants over age 65. ‘We type of, as a stereotype, have this concept that males are OK, and we don’t have to do programming or particular outreach to them,’ she says. ‘That’s a stereotype that’s fallacious.’”

Suicide Prevention: “Males over 75 have the very best suicide charges within the U.S. There are numerous causes for this, says Mary Gagnon, director of suicide prevention at NAMI Maine, a psychological well being nonprofit. Amongst them are loss, illness and the notion of being a burden to others. Entry to weapons additionally performs an element. . . . However Gagnon says there may be hope on that rating. ‘The enemy of suicide is connection,’ she says.”

The Connection: “Harpswell Getting older at Residence volunteer . . . Tom Mahoney did some analysis on isolation and loneliness, and convened a bunch of native males to assist him provide you with a plan. . . . He and others landed on a month-to-month lunch named ROMEO – Retired Older Males Consuming Out. He acquired the concept from different grassroots ROMEO teams across the nation. . . . Attendance has grown from 10 to 12 males to round 55 . . . The free lunches embrace a special speaker every time, speaking about every thing from avoiding scams, to the best way to take good pictures along with your telephone, to fishing.”

3. GETTING THE DOPE ON DOGE

*** Protection Ideas From Veteran Journalists John Wasik and Trudy Lieberman: 

GBONews’ editor supposes that any member of the Worldwide Affiliation of Amusement Parks who’s checked out monetary market charts previously month would reject any although of modeling a curler coaster after them as too harmful. 

Again on the drafting board, our panel of generational-reporting veterans presents a couple of well-grounded, back-to-basics ideas that we move alongside right here. Particularly, retirement finance author John F. Wasik (New York Occasions, Reuters, Forbes) counsels, “Deal with folks, not numbers.”

And extremely regarded well being coverage journalists Trudy Lieberman(Shopper Reviews, Harpers, Columbia Journalism Evaluate) urged, “We have to be  prices in additional depth,” particularly the poor value:profit ratio in america in contrast with much better outcomes in different nations.

Wasik, writer of about 20 books, noticed, “It’s one factor to say your neighborhood goes to lose so many {dollars}; it’s one other to place a face on the losses. Who’s going to lose one thing? What’s going to it imply to them and their neighborhood? Who will undergo essentially the most?”

Wasik added, “I do know that lack of {dollars} will devastate the funds and array of providers provided by our county well being division and social service nonprofits, however I additionally know folks will die and households will likely be torn aside.You must ask why: They gained’t get dependancy counseling, housing support or different assist providers.” 

Primarily based in Chicagoland, he, famous, “Pushing the half-century mark as skilled journalist, I focus totally on growing old and the surroundings lately. Additional, he quipped, “I’m additionally an odd duck. Along with being a working towards journalist, I’m additionally an elected official (county commissioner in Lake County, IL), so I’m actually preventing for federal {dollars} promised to my neighborhood.” 

Stressing the ripple impact of arbitrary DOGE cuts, changing into so starkly evident now, Wasik added that “federal {dollars} stream by to different companion businesses, comparable to Catholic Charities. In each neighborhood, there’s a community of providers that funded with federal packages — every thing from single-mother healthcare to home violence shelters. Discuss to those folks.”

Commenting, “All politics continues to be native,” Wasik prompted reporters, “Deliver residence the story. Make it hyperlocal. Put faces on numbers. Get them to inform their tales. Don’t attempt to do battle with the MAGA ideology. That is about human struggling. Illuminate the narrative the place you reside.” 

Remind Readers of Excessive US Value, Poorer Outcomes

Trudy Lieberman lamented, “We’ve forgotten about prices; our well being care is extraordinarily costly in contrast with the remainder of the world, and we don’t get loads for it. Different nations have nationwide well being care, and it really works fairly properly.” (One instance is Taiwan, featured (April 14, 2025) on the Commonwealth Fund’s “Worldwide Insights” sequence – “How Taiwan Gave Each Resident Well being Care Whereas Containing Prices.”)

Lieberman, a columnist for Well being Care Un-Lined, continued, “If you happen to perceive that, you assume, ‘If we don’t have the perfect well being care on this planet, what can we do to make folks perceive that we don’t have it.’” A previous president of the Affiliation of Well being Care Journalists, she advised a number of sources and techniques to assist reporters news-hook substantive angles out of the political flood zone, even for journalists with restricted assets. 

She particularly referred to as on reporters to dig extra deeply into hospitals and the insurance coverage markets. One fecund supply of knowledge and doable story angles, she mentioned, is Bob Herman, STAT’s prime reporter on the well being care enterprise, as their web site states, “with a objective of explaining and shining gentle on the huge amount of cash flowing by the system.” Lieberman cautions, “Sadly, lots of that’s underneath a paywall, however a minimum of you will get the gist of what they’re doing, and so they do actually good work.” 

STAT+ articles do open with the opening paragraph or two. As an illustration, the header on Herman’s piece on April 8, 2025, is “Republicans are pleased with creating Medicare Benefit. Now some are urging reform amid runaway prices.” 

The lede tells readers that “Republicans in Congress . . . are more and more calling for reforms amid widespread proof that well being insurers are abusing the system to gather billions of {dollars} in unwarranted funds. The rising discontent with Medicare Benefit is very prevalent inside the GOP’s Docs Caucus . . . . Some have sharply criticized insurers’ efforts to make older sufferers seem as sick as doable to extract more cash from Medicare, a apply often known as upcoding.” 

Additionally, try his Might 1, 2025 story, “CVS Well being’s Aetna to desert Inexpensive Care Act insurance coverage marketplaces, once more.”

Contending that protection of hospital system financial stream has fallen off in recent times,  Lieberman urged that now’s an particularly fertile second to rekindle these tales. One other supply “I at all times have a look at on-line,” she mentioned, is Becker’s Hospital Evaluate. GBONews’ editor was simply in a position to check in for a free of charge subscription. One instance of the every day tales: “Pharma tariffs would increase drug prices by $51B: Report,” by Alexandra Murphy (April 28, 2025), “in accordance with an evaluation by Ernst & Younger reviewed by Reuters, [in an] April 22 evaluation, commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Analysis and Producers of America.”

Be taught the Hospital & Insurance coverage Methods

To essentially perceive the hospital and insurance coverage monetary and providers circulatory system, although, Lieberman pressed reporters “to take a seat down with folks within the business and learn how it really works.” 

She allowed, “That’s actually how I realized the enterprise; I’d go to folks up at Hartford Insurance coverage and say, ‘Inform me all about X, Y and Z. I discovered folks within the business.’” As of late, she conceded, “I do know reporters hate to go to the business, until they wish to play “gotcha” or get one thing they don’t reveal. However in a method they will actually educate you numerous. Actually they taught me loads, an d I used to be ready to exit and canopy their industries.” 

Regrettably, Lieberman added, “I feel that’s what is missing in the present day, amongst reporters. They don’t wish to take that step, or they don’t have the time to take that step. However there are methods to do it and there are folks that can assist you. I by no means, ever had hassle discovering folks to assist me, and to tutor me in how the insurance coverage business works. They did loads to additional  my profession, as a result of I truly realized how the enterprise works from them.”  

Reporters “simply want to take a seat down and see if they will get folks to speak to them about fundamentals, and the way the enterprise works. You’re not attempting to get the gotcha; you simply wish to perceive how X, Y, Z works . . . . Don’t to be afraid to speak to any of those folks. Some them won’t ever discuss to you, and that’s advantageous; there’s at all times one other strategy to get the story, proper.”

What’s extra, Lieberman mentioned, reporters “ought to have enjoyable doing it and never have a look at it as a chore. It’s actually enjoyable, it’s actually attention-grabbing. And also you’re going to be serving to lots of people, should you can clarify one thing that they should know. That’s how I at all times method one thing. Early in her distinguished profession, she mentioned, “I didn’t know something on healthcare after I first went to the Detroit Free Press. . . I realized and that’s what they should do.” At the moment, she famous, “ And there are much more publications out there to then we had within the ‘70s and ‘80s, and that’s actually useful.”

Lengthy a mentor to different reporters on well being protection, Lieberman inspired them to contact her or different well being care veterans to ask for his or her ideas on approaches, sources or and present information angles but to be explored. To hone your questions, she mentioned, “learn, learn, learn.” 

She concluded, “Many, many individuals helped me, and I’m at all times prepared to present again after I can.

I’m certain that many good reporters will try this as properly.” Reporters can brainstorm with Trudy Lieberman at trudy.lieberman@gmail.com; (212) 228-5725.

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