Kate Long

writing coach / reporter / radio producer

For 25 years, I've coached writers and editors at papers, conferences and associations (including CDHJF) around the country. I also produce projects for my two home bases in my home state of West Virginia: The Charleston Gazette and West Virginia Public Radio.

I am very centered on West Virginia and the Appalachian area. I have written extensively about health insurance (lack thereof), community health centers (FQHCs), health care reform, medical home projects, health issues affecting elderly, and social determinants of health, such as predatory mortgages.

Articles

War on West Virginia's flood of chronic disease and obesity

<p>Journalist Kate Long's home state faces staggering health problems, prompting her project to explore West Virginia’s rising tide of chronic disease and obesity and the considerable efforts by its residents to reverse it.</p>