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Heather Vogell

I cover stories at the nexus of politics and business, including those that involve the Arctic, international finance and the space industry.

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I’m interested in hearing more about federal agencies’ finance partnerships abroad. If you’ve worked with the government or its private-sector partners, or otherwise have tips in this area, please get in touch.

What I Cover

I’m looking at the Trump administration’s business overseas. I’m interested in how federal finance agencies such as the Export-Import Bank and the U.S. International Development Finance Corp. are operating under the Trump administration.

My Background

I focus on the nexus of politics and business. Previously, I wrote about the commercial space industry and the federal government. Before that, my stories showed how U.S. trade officials worked on behalf of the baby formula industry to thwart other countries’ efforts to regulate it. I’ve also investigated how landlords were sharing data and using a common algorithm to set rents — potentially in violation of laws against price fixing. 

I’ve written, too, about President Donald Trump’s business entanglements and collaborated with WNYC reporters on the podcast “Trump, Inc.” My 2019 stories were the first to chronicle discrepancies between what the Trump Organization told New York City property tax officials and what it reported on loan documents.

Previously, at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, my work on test cheating in the public school system resulted in the indictments of a school district superintendent and 34 others. 

My work has been a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting and the Gerald Loeb Awards for business and financial journalism; it has also won the Hillman Prize, Sigma Delta Chi Awards and others.