WITF reporter selected for investigative journalism fellowship

The Carter Center announced that WITF Health Reporter Brett Sholtis was selected as a 2021-2022 Fellow under the Benjamin von Sternenfels Rosenthal Grant for Mental Health Investigative Journalism – a partnership between the Carter Center’s Mental Health Program and Reveal from the Center of Investigative Reporting.

As WITF’s Transforming Health Reporter, Sholtis reports extensively on mental health issues, COVID-19, and health policy for WITF, the NPR and PBS member station for Central Pennsylvania. His new role will include exploring how ineffective behavioral health policy and militarized law enforcement lead to crisis situations where police arrest or kill people with serious mental illnesses.

Carter Center U.S. fellows receive intensive training from leading mental health and journalism experts, along with a stipend to report on approved mental health topics of interest.

Reporter Brett Sholtis joins Smart Talk to share more details.