Jason Moon
Senior Reporter/Producer, DocumentJason Moon is a senior reporter and producer on NHPR's Document team.
He has created documentary podcast series on topics including unsolved murders, secret lists of police officers, and overdose deaths that are prosecuted as homicides.
Jason's work includes Bear Brook seasons one and two, which together have been downloaded more than 28 million times by listeners in over 150 countries. Stephen King called both seasons, “the best true crime podcasts I’ve ever heard. Brilliant, involving, hypnotic.” The New Yorker magazine called Bear Brook S1 one of the best podcasts of 2018.
In 2021, Jason and his colleague Lauren Chooljian were honored with a Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition award.
Before joining NHPR in 2015, Jason interned with a variety of public radio organizations including StoryCorps, Transom.org, and WBHM in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from Bennington College.
jmoon@nhpr.org
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A psychiatrist called by the plaintiff's attorneys in the landmark YDC trial later testified that incarcerated children can be at risk of serious mental illness.
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An attorney defending the NH health department sought to paint plaintiff David Meehan as “an angry and violent young man.”
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The surprise move comes more than a year after state prosecutors sought to block a request for DNA testing from attorneys looking to exonerate Jason Carroll, who claims he was wrongfully convicted of murder.
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Plaintiff David Meehan told jurors about several episodes in the late 1990s where he claims staff at the former Youth Development Center or YDC raped and beat him.
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The man whose accusations of child abuse at New Hampshire’s former Youth Development Center (YDC) inspired more than 1,100 others to come forward began testifying in a high-stakes civil trial.
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Two former staff at NH’s Youth Development Center (YDC) testified management at the facility ignored complaints of abuse and enabled a culture of violence and retaliation.
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During opening arguments in the first civil trial of the YDC child abuse scandal, attorneys for plaintiff David Meehan argued the state’s negligence reduced him to “a punching bag.”
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Here's an explainer on the case and how this civil trial could impact New Hampshire's larger YDC child abuse scandal.
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Attorneys say the search warrant, filed in 2020, exposes “in great detail” a culture of abuse and corruption by state employees and agencies.
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Voters might be heading to the polls, but school is out for most New Hampshire kids today. NHPR’s Jason Moon and Lauren Chooljian swung by the Seacoast ArtSpot in Portsmouth where their day camp was full of little artists with big ideas about the kind of leader this country needs.