Emily Featherston
Investigative Producer
Massachusetts
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Emily joined the InvestigateTV team as an investigative producer in 2021. Before that, Emily was an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist at WECT News in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she focused on local government, election administration, healthcare and business stories. She came to television from the print world, having worked as an award-winning community journalist in Birmingham, Alabama. Emily is a graduate of Samford University with both a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a Master of Business Administration.
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Permission to Practice: Doctors, patients say insurance prior-authorizations put profits over people
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 3:53 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston, Jamie Grey, Lee Zurik, Bailey Williams and Payton Romans
Insurance companies say these reviews lower costs and protect patients, but what requires advance permission varies plan to plan, and critics argue the policies get between a patient and their doctor.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 9:53 AM EDT
|By Madison McVan, Investigate Midwest, Emily Featherston and Jamie Grey
Experts say $23 billion USDA program set a precedent for spending without Congressional oversight and had a concerning mix of political influence and limited compliance monitoring.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2022 at 3:46 PM EDT
|By Joce Sterman and Emily Featherston
A popular herbicide ingredient some farmers say is vital to business has devastated other farms because of the chemical's ability to drift under certain conditions. Enforcing the rules is in the hands of states, but there is a growing concern over whether federal action needs to be taken.
Updated: Apr. 25, 2022 at 6:18 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston and Lee Zurik
Diabetes patients say they're being priced out of being able to afford live-saving insulin. Who's to blame is a matter of who you ask.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2022 at 1:24 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston, Jon Decker and Jamie Grey
The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act requires research into the gender gap in vehicle crash testing, but lawmakers want Secretary Pete Buttigieg to take action now to close the Collision Division.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2022 at 6:08 PM EST
|By Emily Featherston, Lee Zurik and Jamie Grey
Programs bridging public schools and homeschooling are growing fast, but critics worry about what that means for the future of education.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2022 at 5:02 PM EST
|By Jamie Grey, Emily Featherston, Lee Zurik, Jon Decker and Cory Johnson
Foreign entities have bought 13 million more U.S. farm acres in 10 years, but agriculture policy scholars say the total could be far more.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2021 at 7:10 PM EST
|By Sarah Jane Tribble and Emily Featherston
The number of pharmacies dispensing 340B discounted drugs soared to more than 31,000 this year. Drugmakers struck back by halting some discounts.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2021 at 12:37 PM EST
|By Emily Featherston and Jon Decker
Included in the $1.2 trillion bill is a requirement for the government to take a look at crash test policies and procedures.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2021 at 3:05 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston, Lee Zurik, Jon Decker and Jamie Grey
As lawmakers debate including female drivers in more crash test standards, the agency in charge is staying quiet.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2021 at 1:28 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston, Jon Decker, Lee Zurik and Jamie Grey
Bills in both the U.S. House and Senate look to update crash test dummies and testing procedures to make sure drivers are equally protected.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2020 at 5:48 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston
The lawsuit joins other litigation already pending against the companies.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2020 at 11:51 AM EDT
|By Emily Featherston
The man died after being attacked by another patient.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 4:15 PM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner and Emily Featherston
The resignation of the two Republican members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections late Wednesday night has raised new questions about a vote, taken by the board in a closed session, that would ease some legal requirements pertaining to absentee by mail ballots.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2020 at 9:10 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston
The news of changes to federal testing guidance came as a concerning surprise to local disease experts.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2020 at 10:35 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston
The City of Wilmington leaders voted 5-2 to approve a sign saying “Black Lives Do Matter: End Racism Now” for downtown Wilmington.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2020 at 2:51 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston
Attorney General Josh Stein said his office is joining a coalition of states that will file a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service over operational changes to mail delivery that were causing widespread delays and threatening mail-in voting for the upcoming November election.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2020 at 6:22 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston
Council will consider the art installation Tuesday night.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2020 at 5:56 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston
NC Attorney General Josh Stein spoke by video chat with WECT about potential scams.
Updated: Jan. 2, 2020 at 4:49 PM EST
|By Emily Featherston
Attorney General Josh Stein announced his position on what comes next for Voter ID
Updated: Dec. 16, 2019 at 6:06 PM EST
|By Emily Featherston
A Brunswick County Gold Star family received a new home, mortgage-free, just in time for Christmas.
Updated: Dec. 4, 2019 at 4:50 PM EST
|By Emily Featherston
Environmental advocates argue the on-shore risks of drilling along the Atlantic Coast are just as significant as those off shore.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2019 at 3:59 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston
A Wilmington mother is thankful her youngest son is alive after he was left alone in an after-school care bus in the hot summer sun Tuesday.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2019 at 6:06 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston
In order to accomplish that, the NCSBE declined to appoint a full slate of members to the Bladen County Board of Elections because several nominees have served in the role.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2018 at 4:56 AM EST
|By Emily Featherston
Like the other 43 Stoney Creek residents whose homes were damaged during Florence, the recovery process has been a slow and expensive one.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2018 at 6:19 AM EST
|By Emily Featherston
Photo surfaces of McCrae Dowless and Mark Harris together at a dinner in March in Bladen County.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2018 at 4:12 PM EDT
|By Emily Featherston
“Once something is codified in the constitution, it becomes very difficult to change,” says UNCW professor Aaron King.
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