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Theodore Alcorn
Independent Journalist
TED ALCORN is a journalist and educator with expertise in gun violence prevention policies and programs. He contributes reporting to the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications, and is a lecturer at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and New York University. He was the founding research director of Everytown For Gun Safety, and he previously served as a policy analyst in the Office of the Mayor of New York City. He earned graduate degrees as a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and their School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and lived in Beijing, China as a Henry Luce scholar.
Articles
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A review of internal records and interviews with a dozen current and former health department staff show what expertise it possesses has long been muzzled or ignored.
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Lawmakers concerned about New Mexico’s worst-in-the-nation rate of alcohol-related deaths are focused on revising how the state taxes alcohol.
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A generation ago, the state's legislature set alcohol taxes at a few pennies per drink and hasn’t changed them since.
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"As an Anglo reporter little versed in this science and history, I had a lot of catching up to do."
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Over 73,000 residents who could benefit from treatment to reduce their alcohol consumption are not getting it, more than people addicted to all other substances combined.
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When it comes to drinking, how much is too much?
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Alcohol hasn’t received the attention it deserves. Here are tools to report on it, whether your beat is health, crime, business, or politics.
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Drinking kills New Mexicans at a far higher rate than anywhere else in the nation, and the crisis is escalating.
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In New Mexico’s war on DWI, the relentless focus on drunk drivers misses the bigger problem of addiction.
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As violence in New Mexico spikes, state leaders overlook alcohol’s integral role.