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WEB2 days ago · Asheville Watchdog’s 2023 series Selling Asheville was honored Wednesday with an Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism by the Institute for Nonprofit News at its annual awards ceremony in Atlanta. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and Watchdog co-founder Sally Kestin conceived the four-part series, which examined the …
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WEBAsheville Watchdog is a free, local, not-for-profit, nonpartisan news organization. It was founded in 2020 as a public service by veteran professional journalists and media executives living in and around Asheville, North Carolina. Most members of the staff are volunteers. Our operations are supported entirely by contributions from the community. …
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WEBWestern North Carolina attracts highly accomplished people of all backgrounds, including award-winning journalists from some of the world’s leading news organizations. Volunteers are indicated with (V), designating those who donate their time supporting local journalism as a community service. The News Team Sally Kestin, investigative reporter, co-founder …
Buncombe Court Clerk to Retire • Asheville Watchdog
WEBby SALLY KESTIN January 13, 2023. Steven D. Cogburn, Buncombe County’s longtime Clerk of Superior Court, is retiring, just two months after being elected to another 4-year term. Steven D. Cogburn. “I have decided to retire. My arthritis is a significant reason,” Cogburn said in an email. “I am comfortable with the team at the office.
Conditions at Asheville's Mission Hospital pose ... - Asheville …
WEBJan 12, 2024 · Mission Hospital risks losing Medicare and Medicaid funding because of deficiencies in care that were so severe, state inspectors concluded last month, that they “posed immediate jeopardy to patients’ health and safety,” Asheville Watchdog has learned. “Immediate jeopardy” is the most serious deficiency possible for a hospital. The North …
‘It doesn’t have to be this way:’ Watchdog event panelists decry …
WEBJan 24, 2024 · An Asheville Watchdog community event focusing on the crisis of health care at Mission Hospital drew an audience of about 350 Tuesday evening amid calls for HCA Healthcare to overhaul the way it has managed the hospital system since it bought it in 2019. The event, titled “HCA-Mission at Five Years: What Can We Do […]
Year in review: The story behind the Watchdog’s 12-part Down …
WEBDec 27, 2023 · On Feb. 27, we published the first installment of what would become The Watchdog’s most ambitious project to date, a 12-part series called Down Town. The story began: “Fed-up merchants describe the city’s downtown district as nearly lawless. People sleep and do drugs in doorways, barge into businesses yelling, brazenly shoplift, and ...
John Boyle Joins Asheville Watchdog News Team
WEBby PETER LEWIS November 1, 2022. John Boyle, the popular veteran reporter and “Answer Man” columnist for the Asheville Citizen Times, announced Tuesday that he is leaving the newspaper to join Asheville Watchdog’s nonprofit local news team. Boyle, a 27-year veteran of covering local news in Asheville and surrounding communities, will ...
Citing 'system failures,' Messino to stop providing acute leukemia ...
WEBSep 21, 2023 · Messino Cancer Centers will no longer provide chemotherapy for dozens of acute hematology cancer patients at Mission Hospital because of concerns over “ongoing system failures,” which it says were going to ultimately harm patients. Asheville Watchdog obtained a Sept. 20 letter to Messino doctors and Mission leadership and staff in which …
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