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2022 Winner, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

FEMA’s Disasters

Hannah Dreier and Andrew Ba Tran

Washington Post reporters spent 2021 traversing the corners of the country most ravaged by natural disasters to find out if the government really has people’s backs in the long-term. The reporters conducted 300 interviews and several databases, filed dozens of records requests, and analyzed thousands of pages of individual Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) case records and other documents.

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