Sydney Brownstone
Reporter, Lost Patients
About
Sydney Brownstone is an investigative reporter at The Seattle Times. She previously covered homelessness in Seattle and was a Livingston Award finalist for her work on the podcast Outsiders. Brownstone hails from the world of alt-weeklies, where her reporting on sexual assault and sex work prompted the Washington Attorney General’s first-ever consumer protection lawsuit on behalf of sex workers.
Podcasts
Stories
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Seattle’s troubled past and present suggest a new approach to mental health
The story of Seattle’s first known homeless man and how he was treated speaks to the continuing problems with mental health care 170 years later.
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Vulnerable patients caught in ‘churn’ between Washington mental health care systems face life and death circumstances
Lost Patients is a deeply-reported, six-part docuseries examining the difficulties of treating serious mental illness through the lens of one city's past, present and future. With real-life testimonials from patients, families, and professionals on the front lines, Lost Patients provides a real, solutions-oriented look at how we got stuck here...and what we might do to break free.
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50 years ago, many psychiatric hospitals closed. Did that cause today's mental health crisis?
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Who was Lillian Massey? A journey to Northern State psychiatric hospital
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His mom worried he’d wind up dead. But getting him committed was nearly impossible
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A boy named Adam: When psychosis spills onto Seattle streets (Lost Patients podcast)
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Four new measles cases hit Western Washington
Four new measles cases have been diagnosed in Western Washington — two in King County, one in Pierce County and another in Snohomish County — bringing the total to 77 measles cases in Washington state this year.
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‘A moment of reckoning.’ Microsoft grapples with questions, backlash after sexism email thread
On the morning of April 22, Microsoft broadcast a livestream to thousands of employees from Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, Microsoft’s chief diversity officer. She was there talk about the emails.
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What did Seattle's presiding judge actually say about prosecutors? Here's the transcript
Seattle’s criminal justice system is at war.
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Seattle judge refuses to step aside. ‘Correct your errors,’ he tells critics
A Seattle judge accused of judicial misconduct by the city attorney and King County's head of public defense says the statements made by his accusers are false.