COURTENAY HARRIS BOND
FREELANCE JOURNALIST

PORTFOLIO OF MY WORK

I’ve put together a carefully curated selection of my latest and most influential pieces. Read through the samples below and feel free to get in touch to learn more about me and to discuss any projects you may want to send my way.

As opioids mixed with animal tranquilizer arrive in Kensington, so do alarming health challenges

Opioids Documentary

I was the Philadelphia producer for this German TV documentary about the worldwide opioid crisis.

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Photo by Jeffrey Stockbridge

I co-produced a series of documentary shorts with photographer Jeffrey Stockbridge and editor Hunter Siede about the opioid crisis in Kensington, Philadelphia.

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The Benefits, and Realities, of Using Medication to Overcome Addiction

I spent over a year in Kensington, Philadelphia, one of the largest open-air drug markets on the East Coast, getting to know users who were trying to beat their addiction with medication-assisted treatment. This was a project for my Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism.

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Vulnerable People Are Dying in Unregulated Recovery Houses

A pilot program providing doulas has been a game-changer for pregnant women in PA. prisons

$6 million Temple study aims to reduce Black maternal mortality by addressing heart disease

"A community advisory board of nine Black women with varying backgrounds and professions is helping shape the structure of the Temple study."

‘They don’t care about us’: Nursing home staff fight for fair wage, PPE inside COVID-19 ravaged facilities

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'THE KIDS ARE CRYING'

This three-part series chronicles the despair and displacement in Philadelphia's child welfare system and what DHS plans to do about it.

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Philly-area veterans find that healing ‘moral injury’ helps with recovery from PTSD, depression, addiction

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GETTING MENTAL HEALTH CARE CAN BE HARD ENOUGH. THEN COMES PAYING IT.