Professional Experience
I'm the author of a well-received new book, Mental Health, Inc.: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens ( https://goo.gl/LAz2zV), a Newsweek contributing writer (http://www.newsweek.com/user/25164) and a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly. I'm an eclectic writer who has written everything from in-depth narrative investigative articles exposing dangerous treatment programs to fast turn-around news analysis and blog posts to profiles of musicians . As my HuffPost blog profile sums up ( https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/art-levine): Art Levine, a prize-winning contributing editor of The Washington Monthly and a former Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow and Nation Institute Investigative Fund grantee, has written for The American Prospect, Salon, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones, Truthout, AlterNet and numerous other publications.In 2005, as a Health Policy Fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute, he wrote a prescient major report,
Expertise
Reporter
40 Years
Editor
40 Years
Writer
40 Years
Specialty
Health
40 Years
Medicine
40 Years
Government
40 Years
Industries
Book Publishing Consumer
5 Years
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
40 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
40 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
40 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Newsweek (6-10), Overlook Press -- author, Mental Health, Inc. (1-2), Washington Monthly, Contributing Editor (10+), AlterNet (10+), Miami New Times (10+), US News & World Report (10+)
Other Work History
Freelance Writer September 2005 to Current
Wrote investigative and political articles for Salon, The American Prospect, The Washington Monthly, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, In These Times, The Huffington Post and other outlets. Completed Nation Institute, Alicia Patterson Foundation and Fund for Investigative Journalism projects for Salon, HuffPost and Miami New Times on jail and residential treatment abuses, deaths and rape allegations. Published book Mental Health, Inc: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens, Overlook Press, August 2017.
Fellow, Progressive Policy Institute September 2004 to September 2005
Researched and wrote a report on mental health reform, and started research on other health policy issues. Also freelanced articles for Slate and The American Prospect.
Freelance Writer May 2004 to September 2004
Wrote pieces for The New Repu
Computer Skills
Adept at using online databases and researching quickly online, along with finding videos, movies and obscure documents on the Web. I'm a skilled, quick blogger and I've worked with various platforms.
Equipment
With my laptop, mobile phone and two different types of Kindle devices, I can access information and be available for communication with clients from anywhere.
References
Bob Roe, former editor-in-chief, Newsweek: bobroe22@gmail.com
James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic: jfallows@gmail.com
Additional references and contact details available on request.
Awards
Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship; Nation Institute Investigative Fund grantee; Florida NAMI Journalist of the Year; Fund for Investigative Journalism grantee
Associations
Society of Professional Journalists; Author's Guild; American Society of Authors and Journalists
