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WVPB News Eric Douglas, Apr 14, 2020
New Book Tells Inside Story Of Beginnings Of Opioid Crisis
Former Charleston Gazette-Mail reporter Eric Eyre won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for his investigation into how drug distributors pumped powerful opioids…
WVPB News Giles Snyder, Feb 07, 2020
Investigative Reporter Talks Opioid Lawsuits, Upcoming Book
Community-based efforts can make a real impact in the fight against the opioid epidemic and could benefit from additional funding. One question, though,…
Radio Dec 20, 2019
December 20, 1999: Newspaperman Jack Maurice Dies in Charleston at Age 86
Newspaperman Jack Maurice died in Charleston on December 20, 1999, at age 86. Maurice was born in 1913 in the McDowell County coal town of Vivian. During…
Radio Oct 19, 2018
October 19, 1949: Writer Richard Currey Born in Parkersburg
Writer Richard Currey was born in Parkersburg on October 19, 1949. He served as navy medical corpsman from 1968 to 1972 and also studied at West Virginia…
Gazette-Mail Reporter Wins Pulitzer for Drug Stories
Reporter Eric Eyre of The Charleston Gazette-Mail has won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for articles showing drug wholesalers shipped 780…