
Olga Pierce
Olga Pierce is a reporter at ProPublica, specializing in data-driven stories.
Olga Pierce is a reporter, specializing in data-driven stories. Previously, she was deputy data editor at ProPublica.
She is a winner of the 2015 Deadline Club Award for Medical Reporting for her work on patient harm. In 2011 she received a Livingston Award for National Reporting and an honorable mention for the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, both for her reporting on increasing corporate interference in the drawing of congressional districts. She also shared 2011 Scripps Howard and Society of Business Editors and Writers awards as part of a team focusing on foreclosures.
Olga has appeared on CBS News and C-SPAN, and her stories have been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune and the Hindustan Times in New Delhi.
She is a graduate of the Stabile Investigative Journalism Seminar at Columbia University, where she won a Horton Prize for health reporting. Olga is fluent in Czech and has a bachelor’s in international economics from Georgetown University.
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by Marshall Allen and Olga Pierce,
Could The Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling Kill Patient Safety Reforms?
In all the talk about the Supreme Court’s impending health care reform ruling, one question is often overlooked: What might happen to the many patient safety and quality of care provisions sprinkled through the Affordable Care Act?
by Olga Pierce and Marshall Allen,
California Congresswoman’s Redistricting Shenanigans Catch Eye of Ethics Committee
Per Politico, Rep. Laura Richardson used taxpayer-funded staff and resources in her campaign to manipulate California’s independent redistricting commission.
by Olga Pierce,
Answering Your Questions on Our California Redistricting Story
We answer your questions about our California redistricting story.
by Olga Pierce, Jeff Larson and Lois Beckett,
How Democrats Fooled California’s Redistricting Commission
To get the districts they wanted, Democrats organized groups that said they represented communities, but really represented the party.
by Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson,
Rep. Jerry McNerney's District
Democrats recognized that they could protect Jerry McNerney from being redistricted out of office by the Citizen's Redistricting Commission.
by Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson,