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WSJ wins FOI award from IRE

The Wall Street Journal won the Freedom of Information Award from the Investigative Reporters and Editors for its “Medicare Unmasked” story.

The judges wrote, “With a sustained, aggressive legal battle, staff at the Wall Street Journal pried open an opaque – and often times corrupt – pillar of the U.S. health system: Medicare billing. The resulting release of court-ordered data last year gave the nation an unprecedented look at why taxpayers are funding $60 billion in unnecessary Medicare payments each year. Their public release of the data also allowed hundreds of other media outlets and the public to examine Medicare billing data.”

The journalists who worked on it were John Carreyrou, Christopher Weaver, Christopher S. Stewart, Rob Barry, Anna Wilde Mathews, Tom McGinty, Michael Siconolfi, Janet Adamy, Martin Burch, Chris Canipe, Madeline Farbman, Jon Keegan, Palani Kumanan and Stuart A. Thompson.

See all of the winners here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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