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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Updated: Aug. 26, 2024 at 3:38 PM CDT
|By Emily Featherston and Joce Sterman
Researchers believe low-head dams have caused more than 1,000 drownings over the last several decades, with an average of around 50 people killed each year.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2024 at 1:45 PM CDT
|By Brendan Keefe and Emily Featherston
Police departments coast to coast are going electric — pursuing savings and efficiency along with bad guys.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2024 at 5:20 PM CDT
|By Chris Nakamoto and Emily Featherston
Advocates, victims’ families say lack of laws allow these companies to avoid accountability.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2024 at 1:52 PM CDT
|By Caresse Jackman and Emily Featherston
Poor maintenance tree trimming can have deadly consequences, but critics say it's not always clear who's responsible, and the public is often left in the dark.
Updated: May. 13, 2024 at 2:38 PM CDT
|By Emily Featherston and Joce Sterman
The NTSB’s mission is to independently investigate all aircraft-involved events, but its frequent use of others for work on-scene troubles critics.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2024 at 11:08 AM CDT
|By Emily Featherston and Chris Nakamoto
Garages and decks across the country are crumbling, and some experts fear failures will continue unless oversight increases.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2024 at 3:39 PM CST
|By Emily Featherston and Caresse Jackman
Federal data and stories from coast-to-coast outline how entrenched bias affects the way properties are valued.
Updated: Dec. 18, 2023 at 1:00 PM CST
|By Emily Featherston and Madison McVan
Outside investment in farmland continues to increase, but some economists and many farmers worry deep pockets are pushing prices above what the land is worth.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2023 at 2:48 PM CST
|By Emily Featherston, Jamie Grey and Lee Zurik
Patients and doctors say the health insurance claims process is increasingly lacking humanity as one major insurance company is taken to court over its use of a computer program.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2023 at 4:00 AM CDT
|By Aneri Pattani and Emily Featherston
Parents, educators, and elected officials agree that investing in school-based prevention efforts could help curb the rising rate of youth drug overdoses. The well-known D.A.R.E. program is one likely choice, but its effectiveness is in question.
Updated: Jun. 12, 2023 at 2:14 PM CDT
|By Emily Featherston and Lee Zurik
The drug benefit industry says it works to lower costs and improve outcomes, but critics say these 'middlemen' have too much control.
Permission to Practice: Doctors, patients say insurance prior-authorizations put profits over people
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 2:53 PM CDT
|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 8:53 AM CDT
|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 2:46 PM CDT
|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 5:18 PM CDT
|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 12:24 PM CDT
|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.