Organ Failure
A Death Sentence: Native Americans Shut Out of the Nation’s Liver Transplant System
Despite being more likely to die of liver disease, Native Americans are far less likely to make the transplant list than White people
Annie Gilbertson
Reporter
Annie Gilbertson is an investigative reporter and audio journalist based in Los Angeles.
She recently edited The Wall Street Journal podcast “Bad Bets” about the collapse of Enron and reported on the Pandora Papers for Spotify podcasts. She previously worked for the public radio station KPCC, where she reported and hosted the investigative podcast “Repeat” about a string of police shootings in South Los Angeles. Her reporting on L.A. schools’ iPad scandal was honored as an IRE finalist.
Annie’s reporting has appeared on NPR, in The Los Angeles Times and on the public radio show “On The Media,” among others. She began her journalism career as a reporter in Alabama and Mississippi and is still mistaken for a Southerner.
Show Your WorkOrgan Failure
How We Investigated Racial Disparities in Liver Transplants
We found Native Americans were listed for a transplant significantly less often than other racial groups compared with their number of deaths from liver disease
Show Your WorkOrgan Failure
How We Investigated UNOS’s Liver Allocation Policy
We found that new requirements led to plummeting transplants in some poorer states while New York and California saw big gains
Organ Failure
Poorer States Suffer Under New Organ Donation Rules, As Livers Go to Waste
Life-saving liver transplants have plummeted in some Southern and Midwestern states with higher death rates from liver disease, while New York and California have made big gains
Show Your WorkPrediction: Bias
How We Determined Crime Prediction Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods
A trove of unsecured data allowed the first-ever independent analysis of actual crime predictions across the U.S. by the self-described software leader, PredPol
Prediction: Bias
Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them
Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods
Banned Bounty
Labeled “Research” Chemicals, Doping Drugs Sold Openly on Amazon.com
Amazon bans injectable drugs, but enforcement failures have led to a swell of listings for unproven performance enhancing peptides
The Breakdown
Data-Informed Predictive Policing Was Heralded As Less Biased. Is It?
Critics say it merely techwashes injustice
Banned Bounty
Unlike Other Tech Giants, Amazon Won’t Say How Many Workers Review Posts
We found banned items for sale on Amazon.com
Show Your WorkBanned Bounty
How We Investigated Banned Items on Amazon.com
It wasn’t that hard; Amazon’s own search and recommendation tools led the way
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