Huo Jingnan
Huo Jingnan is a reporter curious about how people navigate complex information landscapes and all the actors shaping that journey — people that produce and distribute content, people monitoring the content, and people affected by them.
Previously, she was an associate producer on NPR's Investigations team. She looked into flood-prone homes sold by the federal government, investigated why face mask guidelines differ between countries early in the COVID-19 outbreak, and helped gauge the federal government's role behind black lung disease's resurgence. The projects she was a part of have won awards including Edward Murrow Award, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Communications award, Silver Gavel Award, and have also been nominated for Emmy Awards and George Foster Peabody awards.
She can be reached via encrypted message at _J_H.07 on Signal.
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Coal miners will press members of Congress to fully restore a coal excise tax that supports miners diagnosed with black lung. The tax was cut more than 50% at the end of last year.
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Fewer Chinese tourists have been visiting Hawaii, Arizona and other population destinations in recent years. The strong dollar has made travel more expensive, just as political tensions have grown.
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More than 2,000 miners in Appalachia are dying from an advanced stage of black lung. NPR and Frontline have found the government had multiple warnings and opportunities to protect them, but didn't.