Selected awards/honors:
- Winner, Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting, 2026
- Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting, 2025
- Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, 2025
- Winner, Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism, 2025
- Winner, Barlett & Steele Award Gold, Regional, 2025
- Winner, IRE Award, Regional Print, 2025
- Winner, IRE Award, Print/Online Div. II, 2024
- Winner, Sidney Award, Hillman Foundation, 2024
- Semifinalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, 2026
- Winner, Collier Quarterly Spotlight Certificate, 2026
- Winner, SABEW Award, Climate, 2025
- Finalist, NASW Science in Society Journalism Award, 2025
- Finalist, ONA Award for Explanatory Journalism, 2025
- Winner, SPJ NorCal Explanatory Journalism, 2025
- Finalist, ONA Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, 2024
- Finalist, ONA U. of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism, 2023
- USC National Health Journalism Fellowship, 2021
- Taylor/Blakeslee Fellowships, 2019 & 2018
Selected interviews/media appearances:
- Poynter: Behind ‘Burned’
- CNN with Jake Tapper
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- KQED Forum
- NPR Code Switch
- Longform Profiles
- Barlett & Steele podcast: Underinsurance investigation
- Inside ‘Burned,’ our investigation into underinsurance
- Shorenstein Center: Inside police chase investigation
- Five questions with UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
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