Hannah Fresques
I am a deputy data editor at ProPublica.
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What I Cover
I help conceive, execute and publish impactful data-driven journalism. Working with ProPublica data reporters, our newsroom and our partners, I have edited investigations on the aftermath of Texas’ abortion ban, high-interest tribal lending and a Salmonella outbreak.
My Background
I have been with ProPublica since 2016. As a data reporter, my investigations spotlighted a nursing home chain with soaring death rates, doctors who receive pharmaceutical company money and a consumer bankruptcy system that fails to provide debt relief in Black communities. My projects, as a reporter and editor, have been recognized by IRE/NICAR’s Philip Meyer Journalism Award as well as Online News Association and Sigma Data Journalism awards. Before working in journalism, I researched and evaluated education policy. I hold a master’s degree in quantitative methods for social sciences from Columbia University.
The Trump Administration Cracked Down on Medicaid. Kids Lost Insurance.
Weeks before 4-year-old Paul Petersen’s surgery to close a hole in his stomach, he lost coverage. The administration’s latest enforcement of the Affordable Care Act burdened many Idaho Medicaid recipients, as a million kids nationwide lost coverage.
They’re Retired. They’re Insured. The Government Pays for It. And Trump Loves It.
Trump talks Medicare in a retirement enclave where doctors are a golf-cart ride away.
“No Comment”: Emails Show the VA Took No Action to Spare Veterans From a Harsh Trump Immigration Policy
The VA’s approach differs sharply from the Pentagon’s, which won an exemption for active-duty members of the military.
“Your Default Position Should Be Skepticism” and Other Advice for Data Journalists From Hadley Wickham
The chief scientist at RStudio and developer of open source tools for data scientists on bribes, bears and where your next story is hiding.
Where in the U.S. Are You Most Likely to Be Audited by the IRS?
A new study shows dramatic regional differences in who gets audited. The hardest hit? Poor workers across the country.
Here’s How ProPublica Analyzed Bud Frazier’s Medicare Outcomes
Our analysis showed that Frazier, a heart surgery legend, had one of the highest one-year death rates in the nation for left ventricular assist device implantations in Medicare from 2010-2015.
At St. Luke’s in Houston, Patients Suffer as a Renowned Heart Transplant Program Loses Its Luster
The hospital and its legendary surgeon Denton Cooley performed some of the world’s first heart transplants back in the 1960s. In recent years, though, it has had some of the worst heart transplant outcomes in the country.
How We Measured Birth Complications
Here’s the methodology for our analysis of birth complication rates.
This Is Where Hate Crimes Don’t Get Reported
FBI statistics on hate crimes remain frustratingly inadequate. Here are some of the jurisdictions where low or nonexistent reporting leave us with known unknowns.