Allie Hostler
News Editor/Reporter
News Editor/Reporter
Allie Hostler works as a reporter at a weekly publication, the Two Rivers Tribune. The small paper is based in Hoopa—an Indian reservation in the far reaches of Northern California—but serves a diverse rural population of about 15,000 in eastern Humboldt County. Because of limited staff at the TRT she covers all subjects, but she particularly enjoys reporting on natural resource issues. She received a journalism degree from Humboldt State University in 2009 and graduated from the Freedom Forum’s American Indian Journalism Institute in 2005.
Journalist Allie Hostler examines the devastating impact of drug and alcohol addiction on the Hoopa Valley Tribe in California.
This two-part series examines this issues on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation:
Part 1: A Community's Struggle with Addiction
Part 2: Services Offered to Recovering Drug Users
Journalists Allie Hostler and Jacob Simas examine how people on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation are dealing with rampant methamphetamine addiction.</p>
<p>Most of the people match the scenery—beautiful. But many struggle with ugly addictions to alcohol, heroin, marijuana and most prevalent, methamphetamine.</p>