It begins in China, then it goes down to rural Virginia, then it goes to Washington, D.C. My first book, “Factory Man,” about a local furniture maker that battled offshoring, is a global story. After my Nieman year, I went back to my newspaper with much more confidence and the ability to think bigger and more globally. MACY: I wouldn’t have written any of the three books I wrote if hadn’t come to Harvard. How did your time at Harvard help you become an author? GAZETTE: In 2010, you were selected as a Nieman Fellow. The interview was edited for clarity and length. In a conversation with the Gazette, Macy explained how her time at Harvard contributed to her development as a reporter, detailed her work on the screen adaptation, and shared her reaction to the bankruptcy settlement that granted the Sackler family, owners of Ox圜ontin-maker Purdue Pharma, immunity from opioid lawsuits. The series is based on the bestselling book “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America” by Beth Macy, a journalist and former Nieman Fellow. The new Hulu miniseries “Dopesick” paints a grim and compelling picture of the opioid epidemic, which has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans over the past two decades.
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