
Reporters Hannah Dreier and Andrew Ba Tran won for their coverage of hidden inequities in the way FEMA administers aid to victims of national disasters.
Posted: April 28, 2022
Washington Post Reporters Hannah Dreier and Andrew Ba Tran are the winners of the 2022 Brechner Freedom of Information Award for their coverage of hidden inequities in the way FEMA administers aid to victims of national disasters. Dreier and Tran spent 13 months investigating how FEMA distributes aid, filing records requests in four states, analyzing 9.5 million records, and reporting in disaster zones from California to Iowa to Alabama. Their reporting found an opaque response system with very little public accountability. In the course of their reporting, they found that FEMA was: Systematically excluding Black people in the Deep South…
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