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First Place: Miranda Green and David Folkenflik, NPR, Floodlight, “Chevron Owns This City’s News Site. Many Stories Aren’t Told”

June 26, 2025April 30, 2026Miranda Green

First Place: Miranda Green and David Folkenflik, NPR, Floodlight, “Chevron Owns This City’s News Site. Many Stories Aren’t Told” (Link) Judges’ comment: This story stood out because it wasn’t just about disinformation — it was about the structures that enable it. By exposing a fake local news site created by a powerful corporation, it offered something […]

‘It was a near-death experience’: How a California town blocked dangerous mudflows

June 24, 2025April 30, 2026Miranda Green

Montecito suffered a devastating mudslide in 2018. Now the community has rallied to try to make sure the same thing will never happen again. Curtis Skene was asleep at 03:30 on 9 January 2018, when he heard the light rain turn into a downpour at his home in Montecito, California. A bright light drew the […]

The Terror of Life Under ICE

June 20, 2025April 30, 2026Miranda Green

People snatched off the streets. Residents in hiding. This is the past week in Los Angeles. Hermanita Conchita was tending to her stand on Monday afternoon, selling pupusas and fruit outside her home in the South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles, when she saw two suspicious cars pull up. “I said, ‘That’s immigration!’ and everyone […]

In a Dusty Corner of California, Trump’s Threatened Cuts to Asthma Care Raise Fears

June 6, 2025April 30, 2026Miranda Green

Esther Bejarano’s son was 11 months old when asthma landed him in the hospital. She didn’t know what had triggered his symptoms — neither she nor her husband had asthma — but she suspected it was the pesticides sprayed on the agricultural fields near her family’s home. Pesticides are a known contributor to asthma and are commonly […]

All That Glitters: Why is Jona Rechnitz still free?

April 30, 2025April 30, 2026Miranda Green

His alleged victims say he bribed New York Police Department officials, stole millions in diamonds, and persuaded Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Kim Kardashian to shill for a scam cryptocurrency. So why is Jona Rechnitz still free? It was like something out of a fairy tale—or the Los Angeles society pages. As a crowd of celebrities […]

Miranda Green receives honorable mention for National Press Foundation Stokes Award for Energy & Environment Writing

April 22, 2025April 30, 2026Miranda Green

Miranda Green received an honorable mention from the judges for her work published in the media outlet Floodlight. Green’s work examined how Alabama’s largest electric utility infiltrated local media by financing a news service and buying an African-American newspaper, thereby limiting critical news coverage. She also reported how oil major Chevron controlled the news in Richmond, Calif., by owning the city’s […]

Power User: Fake newspapers are flooding America

April 18, 2025April 30, 2026Miranda Green

Power User Podcast w/ Taylor Lorenz From Ohio to North Dakota, thousands of people have suddenly gotten brand new newspapers delivered to their doorsteps. At first glance, they look legit. But these newspapers are fake news outlets created by the oil and gas industry to influence public opinion. Top investigative journalist Miranda Green has been […]

Boiling Point: The Fake News Pipeline

April 10, 2025April 30, 2026Miranda Green

A paper is accused of tainting the jury ahead of Greenpeace’s $300m trial

March 17, 2025April 30, 2026Miranda Green

Though Central ND News promises to “fill the void in community news after years of decline in local reporting by legacy media” with “100% original reporting,” no staff are listed on the site and few stories have bylines. Last fall residents of Mandan, North Dakota woke up to an unfamiliar newspaper at their doorsteps. The […]

Trump Is Targeting Key Environmental Employees Who Help Prosecute Polluters

February 5, 2025April 30, 2026Miranda Green

Friday termination notices, abrupt reassignments and the erasure of key environmental websites put the future of policing polluters in doubt. When Donald Trump was reelected president, civil servants working at the agencies that oversee federal environmental regulations and prosecute corporate polluters anticipated that many things would soon be reversed, just like the last time. When […]