Emily Bader

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Emily Bader is a health care and general assignment reporter for The Maine Monitor where she covers substance use, mental health and access to care.

She is particularly interested in exploring how these issues affect Mainers’ everyday lives, how communities are seeking solutions and in serving as a watchdog on decision-makers.

Prior to joining The Monitor, Emily was a reporter for three years at local Maine papers. She has earned recognition from the New England Newspaper & Press Association, Maine Public Health Association, National Newspaper Association Foundation and Maine Press Association. She is a member of Investigative Editors & Reporters and the Association of Health Care Journalists.

Contact Emily with questions, concerns or story ideas: emily@themainemonitor.org

A police car sits in the middle of the road.

Maine law enforcement officers often lack direction for how to conduct welfare checks

Procedures have come under scrutiny since it was revealed that police tried to reach Robert Card weeks before the Lewiston mass shootings.

ByEmily Bader Emmett Gartner

December 10, 2023

As mental health professionals rush to help Lewiston, a long-standing shortage looms in the background

Fallout from mass shootings will linger well into the future.

ByEmily Bader

November 2, 2023

A white bottle of oxycodone sits on a shelf among other white pill bottles.

Maine Recovery Council seeks public feedback on opioid settlement funds

Council members have said they need to hear from the public before making spending decisions.

ByEmily Bader

October 31, 2023

Police cars outside the Lewiston bar where a mass shooting happened.

Maine’s vast rural expanse complicates the search for Lewiston shooting suspect

Boats and remote vehicles search Androscoggin River as part of massive manhunt.

ByEmily Bader Emmett Gartner Samantha Hogan

October 27, 2023

A white paper heart that says to my community is stapled to a tree.

A city, and a state, in shock

“In a split second your world gets turn(ed) upside down for no good reason."

ByEmily Bader Emmett Gartner

October 26, 2023

Lewiston mass shooting suspect seen in a still from surveillance footage.

The latest on Lewiston mass shootings

A lockdown is in place across Androscoggin County after what appears to be the deadliest shooting in Maine history. It was the country’s 36th mass killing this year.

ByEmily Bader Emmett Gartner George Harvey

October 25, 2023

Exterior of a Walgreens location that touts the store features a pharmacy, photo center and is open 24 hours.

Shortage of pharmacists leaving customers in peril

‘They just can’t meet the needs of the people that need them,’ pharmacy professor says.

ByEmily Bader

October 22, 2023