Podcast appearances and mentions of sarah blake morgan

Duke asks for looser coal ash restrictions; journalist Sarah Blake Morgan discusses her new podcast "The Forgotten: After Helene."

Sarah Blake Morgan never got to meet her father, but no doubt he's beaming somewhere, bursting with pride at the brilliant and accomplished daughter born two months after he died. Starting life as the only child of missionary parents, Sarah grew up as a little girl in Tampa rolling down the car window and greeting homeless men by name (since she brought them meals with her Mom). She's gone on to be a reporter for WBTV and the AP and to join the U.S. Army reserves. Her compassion and curiosity will win you over; it's irresistible! I only hope we can work together again someday soon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sarah Blake Morgan is an award-winning journalist based in Charlotte, North Carolina. She currently covers the southeast region for The Associated Press. She has reported across the United States and around the world for local and international news organizations, shooting, writing and editing her stories. Sarah Blake's work has earned her eight EMMY nominations and RTDNAC's 2017 Multimedia Journalist of the Year. She has interviewed politicians, protesters marching through tear gas, mothers who have lost children to overdoses and embedded alongside soldiers in South America. Her extensive reporting on the military led Sarah Blake to her latest challenge. In March of 2021, she enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve and shipped off to Basic Combat Training at 31 years old. Sarah Blake graduated in June and will be attending Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia in October.

In their early 30's, Sarah Blake Morgan and Nick Ochsner are well-known in North Carolina journalism circles. The married couple work at the Associated Press and WBTV in Charlotte. But, in recent months Sarah took a leap of faith few would ever do. At 31-years-old, she joined the military. Nick knows the military well, his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005. On this week's episode of "Tying It Together With Tim Boyum," the couple joins for an inspiring, fun and emotional conversation about the roller coaster they have endured to this point. Sarah tells us why she felt the need to change her life and Nick tells us about the letters written to her every day.

Mecklenburg County's eviction rate is nearly twice the national average, and it's not even the highest in North Carolina. What are so many families being evicted? Sarah Blake Morgan is joined in-studio by Natalia Botella from The Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy to discuss the city's eviction epidemic.

In The Queen City Podcast Network's first residency recording at Uptown Charlotte coffee shop Coco and the Director, Ely Portillo joins host Sarah Blake Morgan to discuss Charlotte's reputation of bulldozing its past, the sustainability of the city's rapid growth, and to offer some perspective about the city's traffic.

In Part two of this recording of a live event, Sarah Blake Morgan moderates a panel discussion of this country's opioid epidemic. In this installment, Part Two of the panel, Sarah Blake is joined by physicians Dr. Patrick Connor , former Carolina Panthers John Kasay, Muhsin Muhammad and Mike Rucker,  and Debbie Dalton, who lost her son to opioid abuse. The discussion was presented by the OrthoCarolina Research Institute, and held at Uptown Charlotte's Knight Theater on September 10, 2019.

In Part one of this two-part recording of a live event, Sarah Blake Morgan moderates a panel discussion of this country's opioid epidemic. In this installment, Part One of the panel, Sarah Blake is joined by physicians Dr. Joe Hsu, Dr. Nady Hamid, Dr. Don Teater, and Betsy Ragone, who lost her son to opioid addiction. The discussion was presented by the OrthoCarolina Research Institute, and held at Uptown Charlotte's Knight Theater on September 10, 2019.  

Kristen Hampton has made the jump from local television news to global internet content creator. Her Facebook lives are routinely viewed hundreds of thousands of times (some in the millions) and her positive message reaches people from all walks of life. Sarah Blake Morgan talks with Kristen about her journey from local news to the internet, and what her future holds, and why she felt she couldn't let people know who she married. 

As the new year begins for Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, there are thousands of students who have nowhere to go when the last bell rings. In this must-listen episode, Meredith Dolhare from RunningWorks joins Sarah Blake Morgan in-studio - along with four special guests - to talk about being in school and being homeless.

CMPD Animal Care and Control's shelter if full of dogs and cats who need homes.  Melissa Knicely joins Sarah Blake Morgan in-studio to talk about how you can give a dog or cat a new forever home, or make their time at Animal Care and Control better. Learn more about CMPD Animal Care and Control here:  https://charlottenc.gov/AnimalsCMPD/Pages/default.aspx

Panthers' beat reporter Jourdan Rodrigue talks with Sarah Blake Morgan about the upcoming Panthers' season, covering the NFL as a woman, and her move from The Observer to The Atlantic.

Sarah Blake Morgan sits down with former Green Beret interpreter Booyah Ghafoori, who left his home in Afghanistan after working as an interpreter with the US Armed Forces.

Betsy Ragone joins Sarah Blake Morgan in-studio to discuss her fight against heroin, and her non-profit "Michael's Voice," formed when her 30 year-old son died of an accidental overdose in 2016.

Gabe Cartagena is 21 years old, a UNCC student, and running for a seat on Charlotte's City Council. He's brash and outspoken, and joins host Sarah Blake Morgan in-studio to talk about what the city council can do better.

QCPN's new Charlotte Newsmakers host, journalist Sarah Blake Morgan, talks in-studio with writer Michael Graff.  His recent story for Charlotte Agenda about a Charlotte activist and a troubled teenager gave a face to a startling statistic about upward mobility in The Queen City.

I have never been to the page of the Facebook group run by my guests on this podcast. I can't get into the group. And that's a really good thing. Sarah-Blake Morgan and Katie Eastman run MMJane, a Facebook group that provides a platform and community for its nearly 1,000 members. The members are all women, and they are all solo video journalists. Such a group is long overdue. A few weeks ago, I released the results of the MMJ Survey, in which nearly 100 MMJs gave their anonymous thoughts about how they view the job and business. I discovered a massive gender gap in the responses. Female MMJs consistently gave lower marks to statements about the solo life, most notably to the statement: "I see myself as an MMJ ten years from now." This is a huge problem for the future of our business. Eastman and Morgan are my guests on Episode 51 of the Telling The Story podcast. I spent 45 minutes chatting with the MMJane administrators about ways to better cater to female MMJs and give them a stronger voice in their newsrooms. Only afterwards did I realize: they have already taken a giant step towards doing that. The mere existence and ownership of MMJane is a massive victory for the one-woman band community -- and, thus, our industry as a whole. Underrepresented groups advance more quickly when they develop a unified voice and receive positions of power. MMJane provides both. → The post PODCAST EPISODE #51: Sarah-Blake Morgan & Katie Eastman, MMJane appeared first on Telling The Story.