Diana Samuels
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Editor for the @seattletimes Mental Health Project. Former @NOLAnews editor. In my free time, I ride horses and attempt to entertain my cats.
Seattle, WA
Joined August 2011
Congratulations to @KUOW and @seattletimes for winning a Scripps Howard Journalism Award in Excellence in Audio Storytelling for “Lost Patients.” #SHJAwards
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Gahh!! Lost Patients is also a finalist for the #SHJAwards for Excellence in Audio Storytelling https://t.co/MKRikwbMTX
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The Scripps Howard Fund's Scripps Howard Awards honor the best of American journalism. Learn more about the Scripps Howard Awards.
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Cant' believe I'm typing this but Lost Patients was nominated for a Peabody 🤭
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✨ The Seattle Times is hiring! ✨ Join our (extremely fun and sweet) breaking news team as our new morning Metro Reporter. It's a great job in a great newsroom. Here's the link and let me know at cgaitan@seattletimes.com if you have any questions :)
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The holidays can be a joyous but also difficult time. REMINDER: HELP IS AVAILABLE. ☎️ Call 988 if you need mental health support or just someone to talk to. Trained professionals will take your call for FREE, and no crisis is too small. Sending ❤️ this holiday season
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Somehow, amid a sea of blood-soaked schlock, our deeply-reported podcast about the mental health system is one of the most downloaded new shows of 2024. Really proud of the whole team behind Lost Patients for showing what podcasts can still achieve. https://t.co/GJd1SdrTiG
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Begging people asking for where the news is on any situation to google the local newspaper for the area. @asheville is Asheville @theobserver is Charlotte @newsobserver is Raleigh @knoxnews is Knoxville Support local news
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Our work was cited in @seattletimes in a tremendous piece sharing the devastating impact of the fentanyl crisis on teens. Every week, a classroom of teens dies from drug overdose across the US. My thoughts on what's needed to address this crisis: https://t.co/laboh69bVc
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Government and medical system failures have created a void in addiction treatment for young Washingtonians during a particularly deadly moment in the opioid crisis.
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This is stunning. In Washington, only 11 youth detox beds exist *statewide.* In this @seattletimes story, @HannahFurfaro tells the story of a teen named Maddy, for whom "access to buprenorphine wasn’t enough. Detox wasn’t available. Rehab came too late." https://t.co/I9mreA44R0
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Government and medical system failures have created a void in addiction treatment for young Washingtonians during a particularly deadly moment in the opioid crisis.
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Thank you to Maddy and Sabrina for their trust & bravery in sharing their story, & to Hannah and everyone else who worked on this project for illuminating so much about how our care systems are failing kids. With intention & foresight, course correction is possible.
Today, @seattletimes launched a new series called High Risk, which investigates government and medical system failures that have created a void in addiction treatment for young Washingtonians during a particularly deadly moment in the opioid crisis:
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The Biden administration today issued new rules to reinforce mental health parity laws. My @seattletimes @stmentalhealth series explored how people in Washington were falling through the gaps in coverage from their insurers. https://t.co/AWl57NVXC7
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It wasn't until the last 15 years that U.S. Congress required insurers to comply with parity rules — that mental health should be covered at comparable rates to physical health.
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We all so enjoyed working w Kate this summer!! Congrats on a fantastic internship and have fun senior year!
It’s my last day as the @seattletimes metro intern, so I wanted to make a quick thread of my favorite stories from the summer 🧵 First, I had the opportunity to review Twenty One Pilots at Climate Pledge Arena last night:
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Our Spotlight pick dives deep into the world of mental healthcare, with detailed investigative reporting, gripping storytelling, and captivating interviews with patients, families, and advocates. From @KUOW, @SeattleTimes & @NPR, this is Lost Patients. https://t.co/E9Rto0fNdb
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The @seattletimes has some cool job openings right now, in a great newsroom in a beautiful place. https://t.co/QeuZdR2F1D
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Behind every person you see in psychosis on the streets, there is a story of institutional failure—a story that goes back at least half a century. We partner with the podcast Lost Patients to find out why American psychiatric care breaks down.
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People who experience psychosis often cycle through homelessness, emergency rooms, and jail. What happened to America’s mental health system?
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So excited for @HannahFurfaro!!! This is an amazing and well-deserved honor. I can't wait to read the book!!
Congratulations to @HannahFurfaro of the @seattletimes for winning the 2024 Sharon Begley Award for Science Reporting! Hannah will use the $20,000 grant to support a book on rare diseases. “It’s time to rethink what we know about what’s rare,” she says. https://t.co/PjZVsZIdi3
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More than four months (!) after our launch, Lost Patients is still one of the top documentary podcasts in the country. If you haven't listened yet, hear the story of why so many people in psychosis are left to wander the streets of American cities.
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ICYMI: A version of Lost Patients, our 6-part investigative podcast on the US mental health system was on @NPR's Up First this weekend. Listen here 🎶 https://t.co/9iEqsNE43X
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A few hours north of Seattle, Washington, there's a kind of ghost town dotted with decaying barns and milking sheds, an old cemetery, and once-stately buildings that housed thousands. It was never an...
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