#38 Ken Belson New York Times Journalist: Ethical Journalism in Concussion Part I

🧠🎙Welcome to SEASON 2 of Concussion Corner!!! 🥼📻 Concussion Corner is your trusted resource for interdisciplinary conversations related to all things concussion-related in healthcare, advocacy, and sport. Did you know that Motion Guidance is the new sponsor for the Concussion Corner Podcast? Meet the Physical Therapy owned business that offers a simple and effective solution to enhance the rehabilitation of your concussion, vestibular, neurologic, orthopedic, and sports patients. Click on the link below to get your free additional targets. Use code: ConcussionCorner 👉🔗http://bit.ly/MotionGuidanceConcussionCorner *This podcast is for entertainment purposes only and should not be confused for medical advice. Please reach out to your medical team or call 911 if this is an emergency*Check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, & YouTube 🎧http://bit.ly/ConcussionCornerFacebook http://bit.ly/ConcussionCornerInstagram http://bit.ly/ConcussionCornerTwitter Listen along on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and Spreaker🙌_____________________________________________________________________________________Ken Belson covers the N.F.L. for the New York Times, a job that includes writing about teams, stadiums, medical issues, lawsuits and many other elements of the country’s biggest and most popular league.Mr. Belson joined the Sports section in 2009 after spending three years in the Metro section writing about transportation, economics, and energy. He previously covered media and telecommunications for the Business section. From 2001 to 2004, he wrote about business in Japan while working in The Times’s Tokyo bureau.In 2011, Mr. Belson returned to Japan to join a team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for International Reporting for their coverage of the tsunami in Tohoku and the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.Prior to joining The Times, he wrote for Bloomberg, Reuters and Business Week, all in Tokyo, as well as for many other publications as a freelancer.Mr. Belson travels widely, including annual trips to Asia. He is co-author of a book on Hello Kitty, Japan’s answer to Mickey Mouse, “Hello Kitty: The Remarkable Story of Sanrio and the Billion Dollar Feline Phenomenon” (2003).He attended Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism from 1995 to 1996 on a Japan-America Friendship Commission Fellowship. He won the Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship, which he used to travel to the Cook Islands to write about what happens when a country goes bankrupt.Mr. Belson lives with his wife in New York. They enjoy listening to jazz, taking long walks and rooting for the Mets, not necessarily in that order.#FOAMed:Twitter: https://twitter.com/el_belsonStory on legislative efforts to ban youth football - https://nyti.ms/2K9d9GlStory from the USA Football national conference in Orlando where coaches and administrators defended football. - https://nyti.ms/2MClSPuStory on father who went to family court to stop his son from playing football - https://nyti.ms/2M6ig7wBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/concussion-corner--2821902/support.