Karen Brown

Karen Brown is an occasional contributor to WBUR. She has been a full-time reporter for WFCR since 1998.

Karen often covers health care, social welfare, and many issues affecting the low-income communities of Springfield and Holyoke.

Her features have appeared on National Public Radio, Marketplace, and other national radio outlets. She has also produced several radio documentaries on mental health issues affecting WFCR's listening area, for which she has won a number of national awards, including the Daniel Schorr journalism Prize and a National Edward R. Murrow Award.

Prior to working at WFCR, Karen was a print reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. She earned a Masters in Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.