Tuesday, March 5, 6-7 p.m. CT
The LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law and the Food Law Society at the University of Arkansas present award-winning journalist, Anna King, host and creator of the Ghost Herd podcast. Check out the podcast at ghostherd.org. Register for the Zoom event here: http://tinyurl.com/ghostherdinterview
Ghost Herd chronicles the story of Cody Easterday, a powerful rancher in rural Washington state and the man at the center of one of the largest cases of agricultural fraud in U.S. history. Easterday defrauded major companies out of nearly a quarter billion dollars by inventing a “ghost herd” of 265,000 cattle that only existed on paper. The podcast also addresses issues of fraud; concentration in agriculture and the food industry; the politics of land ownership in rural communities; and the new land rush in the American West.
Award-winning journalist Anna King shines a national spotlight on the complex stories of the Northwest – from complex nuclear waste cleanup, to mysterious cattle mutilations. Her work appears on KUOW, Northwest Public Broadcasting, National Public Radio and its member stations across the country. King received the David Douglas History Award from the Washington State Historical Society in 2016 for her “Daughters of Hanford” series and museum show. Her work has been recognized nationally and she has earned two Gracie awards, a Sigma Delta Chi medal and an Edward R. Murrow Award for her investigative reporting on the Easterday case. She’s been doggedly covering the story since it broke in the winter of 2021.
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For questions or technical issues, please contact Emily Bridges, era05@uark.edu.