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Tim O'Shei
enterprise reporter
Tim O’Shei is an author, journalist and educator who has written more than 60 books and covered some of the world’s most recognizable athletes, entertainers and politicians. Tim is currently on staff at The Buffalo News, where he writes longform, special-assignment reports on health, sports/entertainment, culture, politics, and business. He has traveled across North America reporting on the NFL, NHL and NBA, Hollywood, the United Nations General Assembly, Washington politics, border issues, billionaire business executives, and more. Tim is also a contributor to publications including the New York Times for Kids. Before joining the Buffalo News in 2015, Tim was a contributing editor for New York-based Scholastic Inc.’s Scope and Weekly Reader classroom magazines and the founder and director of Live Starring You, a national student media organization that trained teen journalists. He currently teaches journalism, entrepreneurship and communications, and is a graduate of The Second City's improv training program.
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This story was produced as a larger project by Tim O'Shei for the 2020 National Fellowship, which focuses on explaining the myriad mental health challenges refugees face and taking readers up close to those realities through the experience of families....
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A reporter relfects on lessons learned while covering the mental health challenges confronting regufees in Buffalo, New York.
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It’s time to get good at talking about mental health.
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Successfully resettling refugees, which in Western New York is coordinated by a small group of local agencies, requires a complex set of community interactions.
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A young family from Haiti was seeking refuge in Canada. Canada wouldn’t take them, and so the family ended up back in the United States, with nowhere to go.
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Refugees need help with mental health care, but are they getting it? A reporter plots a deeper exploration of their plight.
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At a time when the heft of the federal government’s resources is being focused on fighting Covid-19, cancer centers like Roswell can play a role.