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Tennessee Watson

Tennessee Watson is an education reporter for Wyoming Public Radio, where she also covers sexual violence, efforts to reduce violence, and criminal justice. She previously was an independent documentary radio producer and youth media educator. Her honors include an Abrams Nieman Fellowship for Local Investigative Journalism, a National Edward R. Murrow Award, four regional Murrow awards, and a 2016 Peabody Award nomination. In 2015, she was an International Women’s Media Foundation Fund for Women Journalists grantee.

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A collage illustration shows lady justice holding up scales in front of a Wyoming wilderness background. A teenager falls off the scales.
Posted inAccountability

Juvenile (in)justice

Brett Simpson portraitPortrait of steven rascón by Tennessee Watson, Eda Uzunlar, Taki Telonidis, Amy Mostafa, Brett Simpson, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Claire Mullen, Steven Rascón, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson August 7, 2021August 10, 2021

Wyoming locks up kids at one of the highest rates in the nation. A mother tells the story of how her daughter’s fight snowballed into incarceration and tragedy.

A collage illustration shows lady justice holding up scales in front of a Wyoming wilderness background. A teenager falls off the scales.
Posted inCriminal Justice

Juvenile (in)justice

Brett Simpson portrait by Tennessee Watson, Eda Uzunlar, Taki Telonidis, Amy Mostafa, Brett Simpson, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson March 20, 2021July 1, 2021

Wyoming locks up kids at the highest rate in the nation. A mother tells the story of how her daughter’s fight snowballed into incarceration and tragedy.

Posted inAccountability, And Justice for Some, Criminal Justice

Justice isn’t always done for child sexual abuse – I know firsthand

by Tennessee Watson August 11, 2016June 30, 2021

Victims of childhood sexual abuse often hear a refrain: Come forward and name your abuser. Justice will be done. But we rarely hear what happens next.

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