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Jenny Gold — Finding a ‘Superstar’ to Interview

Senior correspondent Jenny Gold started her yearlong project with a question: How will covid shape the next generation of doctors? In June 2020, more than 30,000 new doctors graduated from medical school and started their training on the front lines of the pandemic.

Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez — a woman from Los Angeles whom Gold describes as thoughtful and outgoing — stood out from the beginning. She was about to start her residency in Fresno, California, a city in the state’s agricultural Central Valley that had become a hot spot for covid infections.

In addition to regular interviews, Gold sent Marin-Nevarez an audio recorder so the rookie doctor could document her experiences herself. Those recordings captured sounds inside the hospital and included audio diaries. In the end, Gold had 50 hours of audio to sort through, which were incorporated in a one-hour podcast episode produced with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Listen to the episode here: “‘Into the Covid ICU’: A New Doctor Bears Witness to the Isolation, Inequities of Pandemic.”

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Paula Andaló — The Quest to Bring Spanish Language to KHN

About 37 million people in the United States speak Spanish at home and consume information in Spanish, according to one estimate.

Knowing this, and building on decades of experience as a health journalist, ethnic media editor Paula Andaló developed a strategy to bring KHN’s coverage to Spanish speakers. She has forged partnerships with Spanish-language news outlets across the United States and in Latin American countries.

“I see this job as a mission,” said Andaló. “We offer reliable health content for free and KHN delivers that information in the way Spanish speakers feel most comfortable consuming it.”

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Aneri Pattani — Reporting Road Trip

In December, KHN correspondent Aneri Pattani hit the road to report from inside a nursing home that had been largely locked down for months. Such access is something many journalists had not been able to secure throughout the pandemic. This video is about her journey, and what it took to keep a high-risk, older population safe while reporting.

A month of scheduling and one rapid covid test later, Pattani’s story from the Brian Center Health & Retirement/Cabarrus in North Carolina reveals the nuances of vaccine hesitancy among some nursing home staffers.

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Victoria Knight — How Do You Say …?

When KHN correspondent Victoria Knight began reporting on the coronavirus risk migrant workers brave to harvest crops, she struggled to find farmworkers willing to speak on record. Many of the workers who are undocumented worry about possible detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or fear the Trump administration’s “.” The rule allows immigration officers to deny someone admission to the country based on the entry seeker’s lack of economic resources.

Still, she persisted until ― through the Virginia Farm Workers Program at the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society ― she found Saul, 52, a temporary farmworker who has traveled from Mexico to Virginia every year since 1996 to harvest tobacco. Saul’s native language is Spanish, Knight’s is English, but with the help of WhatsApp messenger and translation support from her roommate, she was able to get this story made.

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Heidi de Marco — “At Least I Got the Shot”

Photojournalist Heidi de Marco’s stunning images transport viewers to two California hospitals near the U.S.-Mexico border where the influx of patients with COVID-19 overwhelmed local intensive care units in late May. To capture these scenes at El Centro Regional Medical Center in Imperial County and Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista in San Diego County, de Marco donned personal protective equipment and followed each facility’s safety guidelines. Still, she acknowledges, the work increased her risk of exposure to the coronavirus. She also risked bringing the virus home to her family. For her it was worth the risk, in order to give readers a window on health care in the midst of a pandemic — and to share her work with the world.

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Lydia Zuraw: The Count — and the Toll

The Guardian and KHN are documenting the lives of U.S. health care workers who have died of COVID-19 complications after being exposed to the coronavirus on the job. Profiles from the Lost on the Frontline project are updated twice a week. So, for months, California Healthline producer Lydia Zuraw has spent endless hours preparing photos, managing text and gathering assets to make sure the posts look great for publication. As the hundreds of faces pass her desk, the death toll is sometimes “emotionally draining,” Zuraw said. But the work has also been a reminder that each person had a family, hobbies and people who loved them, she said.

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Anna Almendrala — Reporting From a Distance

KHN reporters have had to change the way they interact with the people during in-person interviews — in order to keep themselves and others safe. Los Angeles correspondent Anna Almendrala takes us with her as she speaks with street vendors across the Los Angeles area. Sometimes the protective layers she wears create, well, social distance: “I’m shocked that people have agreed to talk to me when I’m looking like this,” Almendrala said. An interview with one face mask seller probably would have ended with a hug if it weren’t for COVID-19, she said.

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Julie Rovner – ‘Everybody Hit Record’

What happens when KHN’s podcast “What The Health?” goes from an in-person studio production to essentially a super-long Zoom meeting? Chief Washington Correspondent — and podcast host — Julie Rovner has some behind-the-screens advice: Turn off that noisy air conditioner and that bubbling fish tank, politely ask your quarantine crew to quiet down, and everybody hit record — at the same time if possible. The smartest health care podcast in the business: KHN’s “What The Health?” posts on Thursdays.

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“Contactless Reporting” By Cara Anthony

Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony takes us with her to a recording studio in Clayton, Missouri, where she voiced her latest radio story for NPR. The whole experience was “contactless,” which she said made her feel safe leaving her home early in the pandemic to get the job done. Listen to the story she produced for and KHN about children living in St. Louis neighborhoods where families are forced to improvise ways to keep their children safe. Long before the coronavirus pushed them to isolate at home, they had their own version of sheltering in place ― from gun violence.

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