“CBS THIS MORNING” TO BROADCAST A SPECIAL LIVE TOWN HALL “STOP THE STIGMA: A CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH” OCT. 23
KARAMO BROWN, FEATURED IN THE SERIES “QUEER EYE,” AND CYNTHIA GERMANOTTA, WHO CO-FOUNDED THE BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION WITH HER DAUGHTER LADY GAGA, WILL APPEAR AS LIVE GUESTS WITH MORE NAMES TO BE ANNOUNCED
CBS THIS MORNING will dedicate an hour of its broadcast, from 8:00 to 9:00 AM, to address mental health awareness in a special live town-hall titled “Stop the Stigma: A Conversation About Mental Health” on Wednesday, Oct. 23. Co-hosts Gayle King, Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil announced the town hall live on air today with Dr. Sue Varma, a member of the American Psychiatric Association. Watch here: https://cbsn.ws/2oiQ76W
CBS THIS MORNING will broadcast the “Stop the Stigma” town hall from Studio 43 in the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, N.Y. before a live audience, a first for this program. The audience will feature guests who have been impacted in various ways by mental illness, including family members, medical professionals and activists. The town hall will feature segments on various topics surrounding mental health awareness, cultural stigmas, treatment and education. The coverage will extend on our digital partner CBSN, CBS News’ free 24/7 news streaming service.
“Our goal is to create a national conversation that will help break down stigmas surrounding mental illness and promote open dialogue and solutions for people, family and friends who are touched by mental health issues,” executive producer of CBS THIS MORNING Diana Miller said. “Mental health is a very complex topic. We hope dedicating extended coverage to the topic will resonate with our viewers.”
“Stop the Stigma” will feature live and taped guest interviews with advocates, educators and those affected by mental illness. Live guests include Karamo Brown, culture expert in the Netflix series “Queer Eye”; Cynthia Germanotta, who co-founded the Born This Way Foundation with her daughter Lady Gaga; and Miana Bryant, founder of “The Mental Elephant,” a non-profit organization on college campuses aimed at helping college students dealing with mental disorders.
CBS THIS MORNING has worked closely with key organizations in the mental health field to help inform the conversation about breaking down the stigma around mental health. These organizations include NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness; The American Psychiatric Association, an organization of psychiatrists working together to ensure humane care and effective treatment for all persons with mental illness; and One Mind, an international brain health nonprofit that funds brain and mental health research to improve lives.
Each weekday morning, Gayle King, Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil deliver two hours of original reporting, breaking news and top-level newsmaker interviews in an engaging and informative format that challenges the norm in network morning news programs. The broadcast has earned a prestigious Peabody Award, a Polk Award, five News & Documentary Emmys, three Daytime Emmys and the 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast. The broadcast was also honored with an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award as part of CBS News division-wide coverage of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
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