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Reverse engineering Medicare, Inc.

One doesn’t just wake up one morning and decide to reverse engineer the federal government’s convoluted Medicare Advantage payment system. Taxpayers spend billions of dollars each year on excessive payments to private insurers in Medicare Advantage, but it is shrouded in secrecy and fueled by vast reams of patient data.
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Hydrogen sulfide hotspots, regulatory failure

Sam Birdwell said there was something that still kept him up at night: the elderly residents and young children who were exposed to the gas — not enough to kill, but enough to make them sick. He’d seen too many oil facilities leaking H2S in residential neighborhoods, near schools and families. And he didn’t have the tools to make it stop.
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Mapping preventable death in “Bleeding Out”

In the back of an ambulance in San Antonio, I watched as paramedics worked on a man they had pulled from a house with bullet-riddled windows and blood-smeared tiles. He had been shot twice, in the arm and chest. When I looked down at my shoes, I saw the man’s blood spattered across my sneaker. 
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Unearthing a broken promise

Using AI and historical records, investigative journalists at partnering newsrooms uncovered names of formerly enslaved people who received – and then lost – land promised under Reconstruction.
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Investigating how loopholes and middlemen are breaking America’s H-1B visa system

In December 2023, with the migrant surge at the US-Mexico border dominating the national conversation, Bloomberg data investigations reporter Eric Fan was crafting a series of Freedom of Information Act requests that would crack open another problematic part of America’s immigration system — the skilled-worker visa program known as H-1B.
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Call for entries: 2024 Philip Meyer Award

The Philip Meyer Journalism Award recognizes excellent journalism done using social science research methods. Nov. 15 is the deadline for the 2024 Philip Meyer Awards.
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Call for entries: 2022 Philip Meyer Award

It's once again time to enter the Philip Meyer Journalism Award contest. Entries are now being accepted online, through Nov. 11. Established in 2005, the award was created to honor Philip […]
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Call for entries: 2019 Philip Meyer Award

It's once again time to enter the Philip Meyer Journalism Award contest. Entries are now being accepted online, through Nov. 17. Established in 2005, the award was created to honor Philip […]
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Get ready to enter the Philip Meyer Contest!

Get your stories ready to enter the Philip Meyer Awards! We'll be accepting entries later this month and we can't wait to see what you enter. To get a head […]
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Call for entries: 2017 Philip Meyer Award

It's once again time to enter the Philip Meyer Journalism Award contest. Entries are now being accepted online, through Nov. 17. Established in 2005, the award was created to honor Philip […]
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