Lori Jane Gliha is an award winning investigative reporter with Scripps News. She is also the nation's expert in tracking pediatric fatalities due to fentanyl. She joins us to share her experience. This is an episode you may want to watch on You Tube to view some of Lori Jane's video clips. The show notes have links to reports.

Lori Jane Gliha is an ethical, enterprising, award-winning national investigative reporter for Scripps News. She is known for her exclusive, national, in-depth investigations, hard-hitting interviews, and continuous coverage of important issues including the use of ketamine - by paramedics -to sedate agitated people; fentanyl poisonings among babies, toddlers, and young children; and gun violence. In 2025, she was awarded the prestigious duPont-Columbia Award for her investigation into the deadliest mass shooting of 2023 in Lewiston, Maine. She has received two national Edward R. Murrow Awards and has been awarded the highly competitive IRE award for longform video journalism, a national recognition for investigative reporters and editors. She received a degree in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Southern California, and graduated, Summa cum Laude, as the Outstanding Broadcast Journalism Undergraduate. She minored in Spanish.

Scripps News Investigates: The silent toll of the fentanyl epidemic. Nov 2023

How a 5-year-old ingested fentanyl in her kindergarten classroom

Poisoned: Fentanyl's Child Victims march 2025

He was gasping for air: How witnesses describe child fentanyl poisonings

Colorado Gov Jared Polis 'disheartened by communication gaps in child fentanyl cases

Twin babies and parents saved following hospital fentanyl test

States push for life saving fentanyl testing laws amid rising opioid concerns - April 2025

Many Child fentanyl deaths remain uncharged, Scripps News review finds

Fentanyl Pipeline: How a Chinese Prison Helped Fuel a Deadly Drug Crisis in the United States - we discuss this publication in ProPublica and much more in a fascinating discussion with Sebastian Rotella.

Sebastian Rotella is an award-winning foreign correspondent, investigative reporter and novelist. His reporting has taken him across the world to more than 30 countries. Since 2010, he has been a senior reporter at ProPublica covering international security issues such as organized crime and intelligence. His honors include a Peabody award, multiple awards from the Overseas Press Club, Columbia University’s Moors Cabot Prize for coverage of Latin America, and Italy’s Urbino Press Award. He is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Sebastian is also a critically-acclaimed author of three novels: Rip Crew (2018), named one of Kirkus Review’s best crime novels of the year; The Convert’s Song (2014), an editor’s pick on Amazon; and Triple Crossing, the New York Times Sunday Book Review’s favorite action thriller and debut crime novel of 2011. He is also the author of Twilight on the Line: Underworlds and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border (1998), named a New York Times notable book. He has been an invited speaker at the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the U.S. Army, the NYPD Intelligence Division, and U.S. and foreign embassies, think tanks and universities. His coverage of the U.S. Mexican border inspired two songs on Bruce Springsteen’s album The Ghost of Tom Joad.

Rotella articles of interest:

https://www.propublica.org/article/china-fentanyl-prison-yafeng-illegal-drug-trade

https://www.propublica.org/article/chinese-organized-crime-us-marijuana-market

https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-marijuana-china-diplomat-visits

https://www.propublica.org/article/marijuana-oklahoma-china-immigration-safety-workers

https://www.propublica.org/article/china-cartels-xizhi-li-money-laundering

https://www.propublica.org/article/liu-tao-trump-meeting-china-investigation

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-beijing-chinese-mafia-europe-protect-interests

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