We won four more journalism prizes!

Jeanne Pinder April 26, 2018

More great news! We won first place for public service nationally in the 2017 SIgma Delta Chi awards in small-market television reporting from the Society for Professional Journalists, for our “Cracking the Code” health cost work with NOLA.com I The Times-Picayune and WVUE Fox 8 Live. “Cracking the Code” also won three first places, for Continuing Coverage, News […]

Louisiana Legislature passes consumer protection bill in the wake of our ‘Cracking the Code’ work

Jeanne Pinder December 5, 2017

Louisiana Legislature passes consumer protection bill in the wake of our ‘Cracking the Code’ work

A bill requiring that people be notified in advance of potential balance billing at a health care facility in Louisiana passed the Legislature in Baton Rouge and was signed into law by the governor. While we aren’t able to say that our work in New Orleans was the cause of the bill’s passage, we did […]

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‘Cracking the Code’ wins an Emmy

Jeanne Pinder December 3, 2017

Our partner WVUE Fox 8 Live won several Suncoast regional Emmy awards for excellence on Saturday, including one for our “Cracking the Code” series revealing health costs in New Orleans. WVUE’s chief investigative reporter, Lee Zurik, was cited as winner both for “Cracking the Code,” in the series contest, and for a single story on […]

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‘The Internet hates secrets’: ClearHealthCosts works with newsrooms to bring health costs out of hiding: Nieman Journalism Lab

Jeanne Pinder September 22, 2017

‘The Internet hates secrets’: ClearHealthCosts works with newsrooms to bring health costs out of hiding: Nieman Journalism Lab

“’The voicemails would make you want to cry,’” Laura Hazard Owen writes about us over at NiemanLab, the future-of-journalism site at Harvard University. “When New Orleans’ WVUE Fox 8 News invited viewers to get in touch and share their healthcare costs, they weren’t sure what kind of response they’d receive. Would people be willing to […]

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Philadelphia, here we come: New journalism initiative

Jeanne Pinder

Philadelphia, here we come: New journalism initiative

We’re elated to announce that ClearHealthCosts will be working with the Philadelphia Media Network under the Lenfest Institute’s first funding round for innovation in journalism, to spread health cost transparency to the Philadelphia metro area. We’ll use shoe-leather reporting, crowdsourcing, data journalism and other tools to tell people what stuff costs with the Philadelphia Media Network — The Philadelphia […]

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How ClearHealthCosts Helped New Orleans Newsrooms Save Money for Readers

Jeanne Pinder August 31, 2017

How ClearHealthCosts Helped New Orleans Newsrooms Save Money for Readers

“During a 2013 Morning Edition broadcast, Brian Lehrer and Soterios Johnson asked female listeners to complete a survey on the WNYC website on the cost of routine mammograms,” Bianca Fortis writes about us over at MediaShift, the destination site for insight and analysis at the intersection of media and technology. “The appeal was part of a collaboration with […]

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We take your questions on Reddit: The ‘Cracking the Code’ AMA (Ask Me Anything)

Jeanne Pinder August 25, 2017

We take your questions on Reddit: The ‘Cracking the Code’ AMA (Ask Me Anything)

I went on Reddit on Aug. 24 with our partners, investigative reporter and anchor Lee Zurik at WVUE FOX 8 Live and Jed Lipinski at NOLA.com I The Times-Picayune, to do an “AMA” or “Ask Me Anything” open forum. To read the whole AMA, go here. Here’s one exchange: [–]B4UGOTHERE 1 point 20 hours ago Where did you get the big […]

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Watching change happen in real time: How people use our data

Jeanne Pinder July 31, 2017

Watching change happen in real time: How people use our data

We got to watch a community member learn how to shop for health care in real time the other day, when our partners over at NOLA.com I The Times-Picayune were doing a Facebook Live. She came in in the comments, saying, “I pay my insurance over $500 a month. My out of pocket after my […]

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What we learned: ‘Cracking the Code,’ a TV special by FOX 8 Live

Jeanne Pinder June 30, 2017

What we learned: ‘Cracking the Code,’ a TV special by FOX 8 Live

Weekend watching: Here’s a special TV wrapup of our work so farwith our award-winning journalist partners, investigative reporter and anchor Lee Zurik at WVUE FOX 8 Live and Jed Lipinski and Manuel Torres at NOLA.com I The Times-Picayune, and their teams. We launched our New Orleans PriceCheck partnership in April 2017, using shoe-leather journalism, data journalism and crowdsourcing […]

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Preservation through progress: A letter from NOLA Media Group President Tim Williamson | NOLA.com

Jeanne Pinder May 28, 2017

Preservation through progress: A letter from NOLA Media Group President Tim Williamson | NOLA.com

“Last summer, I made a pledge to you that we would build a progressive, dynamic and forward-thinking media company that would serve the New Orleans community for generations to come,” writes Tim Williamson, president at NOLA Media Group, featuring the recent achievements of his staff, including our “Cracking the Code” partnership — right up there […]

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