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The Association of Health Care Journalists announced this week that ProPublica won three first-place honors in its Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism.
“Inside the Fall of the CDC” won in the investigative category. Reported by James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg, the story provided a comprehensive look at meddling inside the CDC by a White House determined to prioritize the president’s message over public health during the COVID-19 pandemic. From botched COVID-19 tests to line-by-line edits that President Donald Trump’s advisers made to official health guidance, the reporting shed new light on the missteps and repeated capitulations made by some of the government’s top scientists. Judges called the project “an exercise in extensive and detailed reporting on the biggest public policy issue of the year. ProPublica documented with emails, public records, and dogged interviewing a story that many thought they knew but couldn’t
KCUR s Alex Smith, pictured here in 2017.
Smith is the recipient of the coveted Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism from the Association of Health Care Journalists.
KCUR health reporter Alex Smith has garnered a second-place award for beat reporting from the Association of Health Care Journalists, one of the premier health reporting organizations in the country.
“During the course of the year, I spoke with patients, nurses, doctors, and people from all across Kansas and Missouri who helped me and the public understand how the coronavirus was affecting them,” Smith said. “Some health care workers risked their jobs by talking with me candidly about what they saw in hospitals, and I deeply appreciate them for trusting me with their stories.”
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