Scott Higham

Pulitzer and Emmy award-winning journalist, writer, co-author American Cartel, Finding Chandra, fan of Democracy, all things NYC.

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

Making the Kennedy Center “hot again?” Not so much. https://t.co/HPwggZYQRt

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

There still may be justice for the people of West Virginia, ground zero for the opioid epidemic. If you think Purdue was to blame, think again. It took an entire industry to destroy millions of lives. For the full story,
see our book American Cartel. https://t.co/Zofv71L0Qr

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

A must read by ⁦⁦@SangerNYT⁩, one of the sharpest reporters in the nation. https://t.co/68k1vouYni via @NYTimes

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

As U.S. and global markets implode, wiping out trillions in American retirement accounts, Fox is leading with this story. Do they have any real reporters left? Or are they all propagandists?

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

Whitewashing and rewriting history. Shameful. Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad https://t.co/hwRxUWTFFG

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

@SNYtv @SteveGelbs This is happening. The new mantra!!
Interesting week at your household!!

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

More than 40 percent of Americans now know someone who died from a drug overdose. Tune in tomorrow night to find out how fentanyl became the scourge of our time.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

This Sunday, 60 Minutes' Bill Whitaker visits the U.S.-Mexico border at San Ysidro, between San Diego and Tijuana. Almost all the fentanyl entering the country is smuggled through ports of entry like this one, and many of those smugglers are American citizens.

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

Fentanyl has become the scourge of our nation. How did we get here, and what’s being done to save American lives? Our investigation with Bill Whitaker airs on 60 Minutes Sunday night. Please let everyone you know to tune in or watch online.

https://t.co/7WfYYXjPbY?

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

Some happy news!
After a rewarding 24-year-run at The Washington Post, I’m making a move to broadcast news, working on investigative projects with Bill Whitaker at 60 Minutes. If you have a solid story idea, please DM or contact me on Signal, highamscott.29

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

Overdoses soared even as prescription pain pills plunged https://t.co/IaKg7thfPu

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

@uniglobalunion @CHoffmanUNI @uniapro @UNI_Europa @uniamericas She’s so incredible. Please give her a big congratulatory hug for me. Can’t wait to celebrate in person!!!!

[Dana Hedgpeth @postmetrogirl]

Indian boarding school survivors share stories of sexual abuse, trauma - The Washington Post https://t.co/7E9NtqNRlb

[Tom Lowry @lowrytom]

The return of the pay phone on deadline. Great piece by @TheMessenger team today on the Miami courthouse setup, a story that jogged a lot of memories. https://t.co/s9pNx0P9W7

[Meryl Kornfield @MerylKornfield]

Honored to have worked with such incredible colleagues on CartelRx, recognized in the @PulitzerPrizes Public Service category for chronicling the government failures that helped accelerate fentanyl deaths in the worst drug crisis in America. https://t.co/Ro2MWxQq6q

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

Heartbreaking.

[James Finn @rjamesfinn]

Eerie how this testimony in @ScottHigham1 and @SariHorwitz’s “American Cartel” from a West Virginia funeral assistant echoes what Louisiana has seen through COVID, surging homicides and the fentanyl crisis

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

My heart goes out to Bruce Willis and his family, & also my gratitude for shining a much needed light on this disease. When people step forward it helps all of us. When people get a diagnosis it’s extremely difficult, but also for most a relief to get a diagnosis.

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

You gotta watch this. One of the best docs ever on the origins of the opioid epidemic by ⁦@darren_foster⁩. https://t.co/hjvFVEjNKN

[USC Center for Health Journalism @ReportingHealth]

ICYMI, you can watch The Next Wave of America's Overdose Crisis panel w/Pulitzer prize-winning @washingtonpost journalists @SariHorwitz & @ScottHigham1, along w/NYU professor & director of NYU Center for Opioid Epidemiology & Policy, @Magda_Cerda below:

https://t.co/WlU73SvEli

[Scott Higham @ScottHigham1]

As fentanyl boomed, DEA removed Mexico director amid misconduct probe https://t.co/quRadqXzOv