by Alison Bass | May 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
At a barbecue this weekend, the hostess mentioned that she regularly saw Mike Barnicle, the disgraced former columnist from The Boston Globe, on Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough’s daily morning show on MSNBC. This friend had read my memoir, Brassy Broad: How one...
by Alison Bass | May 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
I love traveling, in large part because I get to meet people from different cultures and countries and learn more about how the problems we face in the United States are echoed and sometimes amplified around the world. When I was in the Boston area for my son’s...
by Alison Bass | May 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
In 2021, the CEOs of America’s seven largest health insurance companies cumulatively earned more than $283 million in 2021 — by far the most of any year in the past decade, according to this story in statnews. The CEO of UnitedHealthcare alone earned $142 million,...
by Alison Bass | May 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
When I was 20 years old, I was raped in London at the beginning of my junior year abroad. Lucky for me, the kind custodian of the YWCA where I was staying for a few nights, suggested that I go to a nearby hospital the next morning and ask for a morning-after pill....
by Alison Bass | May 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Okay, so J.D. Vance won the Republican nomination for a Senate seat in Ohio (in a crowded five-candidate field by seven points). Some political pundits are crowing that this is a sign of Donald Trump’s continuing hold over the Republican party. Maybe, or maybe...
by Alison Bass | Apr 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the New York Times today, a former top FDA official shines the spotlight on a stunning revelation: that the mega consulting firm McKinsey was working with Purdue Pharma at the very same time it was getting paid by the Food and Drug Administration to help organize...
by Alison Bass | Apr 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Throughout my career, I’ve been drawn to writing about marginalized populations, including people with mental illness, sexual abuse survivors and sex workers. But one marginalized group I have never written about are native Americans. So you can imagine my...
by Alison Bass | Apr 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
I will be participating in a live Zoom conversation April 10 with another veteran journalist on the challenges we faced as women in an industry dominated by men and the qualities we needed to survive an uneven playing field. Please join Catherine Underhill...
by Alison Bass | Mar 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
I just finished watching the riveting series, Dopesick, on Hulu, and it brought me back in time, to when I was researching my own book about a drug company that lied to the American public and caused many deaths and untold anguish, much like Purdue Pharma did when it...
by Alison Bass | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
A quick reminder: I will be giving a talk about my journalism career to the West Virginia University student chapter of Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) this Thursday, March 24 at 6 pm. The event is open to WVU students and faculty and will...
