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Welcome to Mysteries to Die For and this Toe Tag.I am TG Wolff and am here with Jack, my piano player and producer. This is normally a podcast where we combine storytelling with original music to put you at the heart of mystery. Today is a bonus episode we call a Toe Tag. It is the first chapter from a fresh release in the mystery, crime, and thriller genre.Today's featured release is Map of My Escape by Cheryl L. ReedTG Wolff ReviewMap of My Escape is a crime drama novel. Anti-gun activatist Riley Keane has done the unthinkable. In a crisis situation, she shot at two men wrestling. But did she shoot the assailant or her close friend and Chicago police officer Reece Taylor? Either way, she's too hot to stay in her hometown. Now Alderman Finn O'Farrell, Riley's lover, is left to deal with the fallout of threats, accusations, and blackmail. Bottom line: Map of My Escape is for you if you like crime driven drama delivered at a pace to be savored.About Cheryl L. ReedA former staff editor and reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times and other publications, Cheryl L. Reed's stories have won multiple awards, including Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. She has twice been awarded a U.S. Fulbright Scholar fellowship by the State Department, first in Ukraine and then in Central Asia. Reed is the author of the nonfiction book Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns and the novel Poison Girls, which won the Chicago Writers' Association Book of the Year. She splits her time between Washington, DC and her home near the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.Partners In Crime Tours represents a network of 300+ bloggers offering tailor-made virtual book tours and marketing options for crime, mystery and thriller writers from around the world. Founded in 2011, PICT offers services for well-established and best-selling authors, as well as those just starting out with their careers. PICT prides itself on its tailored packages with a personal touch from the tour coordinators. For more information, check out their website partnersincrimetours.comJoin us next week for Season 7 Games People Play. We have an adaptation for you from the early part of the 20th century. The game is a maze. The original is The Mystery of the Downs by John Watson and Arthur J. Rees. The name of the adaptation? I'm working on it.

We were honored to host a conversation with the Brennan Center for Justice Senior Advisor Barton Gellman, and national security expert Rosa Brooks, moderated by journalist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. They discussed the tabletop “what if” exercises conducted this summer, highlighting the need for defenders of democracy to prepare more robustly to mitigate potential threats of a second Trump Presidency to our constitutional government. While not all abuses can be entirely prevented, there are important steps we must take to combat these threats. Listen or watch our call.ABOUT OUR SPEAKERSBarton Gellman is Senior Advisor to the president and executive director of the Brennan Center. His focus is on building safeguards against threats to democracy in the 2024 election and in the presidential administration to come in 2025. Gellman joined the Brennan Center from The Atlantic, where he was an award-winning staff writer. He is the author most recently of Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State. Gellman has received multiple professional honors including; the 2008 and 2014 Pulitzer Prizes, two George Polk Awards, two Overseas Press Club awards, two Emmy awards for a PBS Frontline documentary, Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Rosa Brooks holds the Scott K. Ginsburg Chair in Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, where she has served as a tenured professor since 2006. She also serves as Georgetown Law's Associate Dean for Centers and Institutes and as co-director of Georgetown's Center on Innovations in Public Safety. She is also an Adjunct Senior Scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute, an ASU Future of War Senior Fellow at New America and a founder of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security (LCWINS). From April 2016 to November 2020, she served as a reserve police officer with the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department. Kimberly Atkins Stohr is a senior opinion writer and columnist at The Boston Globe. She is also an MSNBC contributor, a frequent panelist on NBC's “Meet the Press,” and co-host of the weekly Politicon legal news podcast #SistersInLaw. Previously, Kim was the inaugural columnist for The Emancipator, a collaboration between The Boston Globe and Boston University's Center for Anti Racist Research that reframes the conversation about racial justice and equality.

For a full transcript of this episode, click here. This show today is for physicians or other clinicians or providers who are still taking insurance—those who are going about their day being pretty normal ... but at the same time, they're noticing one and/or two things potentially going on. Here's thing one: They may be seeing patients struggling to afford care, especially patients with commercial insurance and huge deductibles. And/Or thing two: They may have patients actually coming in and asking to pay cash. It's definitely becoming known in some circles that about half the time the cash price for something is actually cheaper than the “negotiated” rate with an insurance carrier. And this has really become an actionable insight for patients who haven't yet met their deductible, and some high percentage of patients—maybe upwards of 90% of patients—won't meet their deductible in any given plan year. So, all of this is probably some pretty obvious foreshadowing, but let's run through two maybe quick reasons why a practice might want to contemplate ways to make it easier for patients to pay cash when it is, in fact, cheaper for that patient to pay cash than it is for them to go through their insurance. Now, a clarifying point here: We are not talking here about that patient always paying cash heretofore … like, never using their insurance ever again, even if they get hit by a bus. No. We're talking about the patient coming in for some office visit or service, and today, they want to pay with a wad of money they take out of their wallet and hand you. That is the end of the transaction that we're talking about here. So, here's the first of let's just say two reasons that a practice might want to entertain taking cash from insured (technically, at least) patients. First reason: We have a situation in this country where 48% of insured commercial patients say that they are delaying or forgoing care due to cost or fear of cost. Sometimes I say this 48% number to a clinician, and they will reply, “Well, that's not in my practice or in my hospital; our patients show up.” To which I reply, “Yeah, because the patients abandoning care are not the patients that are coming in. They are abandoning care.” Now, the second reason a “normie” practice might want to be thinking about how to help patients get the best possible price here is maybe less intuitive, but it's a financial motivation for the practice. I just saw Eric Vanderhoef. He wrote on a Listserv recently, and this is what he wrote: Patient no-shows and cancellations cost healthcare providers as much as $7500 per month. That's a loss of $375 per patient. Hmmm … okay. Keep this in mind: The whole cancellations costing providers upwards of $7500 a month would help reduce this. Coincidentally, I was talking to Paula Muto, MD (she's the founder of UBERDOC) about this exact same topic the other day—just the crazy no-show rates that many practices experience—and she made some really good points, which are exactly in line with the Tebra report Eric Vanderhoef referenced above. She said that if a patient knows exactly how much a physician visit is going to cost—because they're paying cash and the price is set between the doctor and the patient, so the price is the price, the end—no-shows will go down, and this is especially true when the appointment is tomorrow and not six months from now when appointments are booking these days. It's kind of not normal for anybody to know what's gonna be happening in lives six months from now, so no wonder patients fail to show. Dr. Muto is recommending maybe having a couple of slots open every day for patients who want to pay cash. Doing this could help improve some—not all, for sure, but some—practice cash flow issues which are caused by the no-show thing or the getting paid by the insurance carrier net whatever months later after a billing fight kind of thing. And it's also a win-win for patients with high-deductible plans, especially those patients who are coming in asking to pay cash. In the conversation today, Marshall Allen, my guest, explains how to, in a simple enough way, operationalize the ability of a practice to take cash. There's a form that you'll need for insured patients. You'll actually need a cash price. It's also a marketing opportunity. For example, you can get listed with entities that connect consumers to practices that take cash, like UBERDOC, but there's also a growing movement of employers, especially in some parts of the country, who are looking around for providers who will do direct contracting or cash prices. In fact, I just saw a study the other day: “New polling conducted by Marist … found that 94 percent of adults agreed that hospitals, insurance companies and doctors should ‘be legally required to disclose all of their prices, including discounted prices, cash prices, and insurance negotiated rates across hospitals and across plans in an easily accessible place online.'” Alright, if I know you, you are thinking right now about all of the reasons why this won't work. So, let me head you off at the pass. My guest today, Marshall Allen, solves for the most common issues that everybody brings up, including the big kahuna issue, the “I am contractually forbidden by a health plan to allow patients to pay cash.” You will need to listen to this podcast for the answer. Now, there are, of course, other hairballs to untangle that we do not address today. As Marshall Allen says, there are layers of dysfunction here. One bit of weirdness is something that David Schreiner, PhD, told me about the other day. David is CEO of Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital in Dixon, Illinois; and he's also the author of a new book entitled Be the Best Part of Their Day: Supercharging Communications With Values-driven Leadership. David said that sometimes hospital payer contracts have the payer reimbursing the hospital for a percentage of overall charges. Yes, you heard that right. The hospital totes up, using their charge master rates, the total amount of billings for the entire year; and the carriers pay a percentage of that total. So, the hospital has a big incentive to keep charge master rates as high as possible. If some patients pay lower cash amounts, then their carrier reimbursement (the hospital's carrier reimbursement) will drop. Probably some math there, I guess, because if it's determined that patients aren't actually showing up for services due to cost, then they might be getting paid a percentage of zero by the carriers; but point taken still. There are, for sure, considerations to be thought through; and, for sure, having contracts like this is one of them. I was talking to Lauren McAteer the other day, and she told me when she worked for a hospital and went to meetings, sometimes she'd bring in a hospital gown and hang it over a chair in the conference room to make it harder to not consider the patient perspective and think about how decisions impacted patients. Good idea, because where there's a will, there's often a way. My guest today, Marshall Allen, probably needs no introduction. But I ask Marshall for the skinny on how he started Allen Health Academy, and you will hear him introduce himself. So, in the interest of eschewing redundancy, let's do this thing. Also mentioned in this episode are Eric Vanderhoef; Paula Muto, MD; David L. Schreiner, PhD; Lauren McAteer, CCXP; Benjamin Jolley, PharmD; David Scheinker, PhD; William Shrank, MD; Jerry Durham; Leon Wisniewski; Cristin Dickerson, MD; and Dutch Rojas. You can learn more by signing up for Marshall's newsletter at marshallallen.substack.com. You can also go to Allen Health Academy or to Marshall's site.     Marshall Allen has spent more than 17 years investigating the healthcare system as a journalist. He is the founder of Allen Health Academy and the author of Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win. His book and his health literacy videos, The Never Pay Pathway, are helping working Americans save hundreds and thousands of dollars—per healthcare encounter. Marshall is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Harvard Kennedy School's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and dozens of other journalism awards. For more information, visit allenhealthacademy.com and sign up for his newsletter at marshallallen.substack.com.   07:04 What Allen Health Academy is doing. 11:01 What's the problem with the system now? 14:19 EP363 with David Scheinker, PhD. 14:27 EP413 with Will Shrank, MD. 14:34 What's the hack Marshall Allen shares for insured patients paying cash? 15:06 How can patients cite HIPAA to pay cash instead of using their insurance? 19:00 What's the first recommendation Marshall Allen has when dealing with healthcare billing? 21:26 EP297 with Jerry Durham. 21:48 What are the other benefits of a clinic accepting cash payments? 25:36 Why do we need to have more direct pay happening? 26:36 How should a medical provider set a cash price? 27:12 Research tools for fair pricing: fairhealthconsumer.org, BILLY, colonoscopyassist.com, Jason Health, Green Imaging. 32:36 How do you find the win-win between a patient and a doctor? 32:51 What's the final tier of partners in creating more direct-pay opportunities? 34:30 What's Marshall Allen's opinion on having to pay credit card fees?   You can learn more by signing up for Marshall's newsletter at marshallallen.substack.com. You can also go to Allen Health Academy or to Marshall's site.   @marshallallen discusses operationalizing cash payments for #clinicalpractices on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #pharma #healthcareleadership #healthcaretransformation #healthcareinnovation   Recent past interviews: Click a guest's name for their latest RHV episode! Stacey Richter (INBW39), Peter Hayes, Joey Dizenhouse, Benjamin Jolley, Emily Kagan Trenchard (Encore! EP392), Cora Opsahl (Encore! EP372), Jodilyn Owen, Ge Bai, Andreas Mang, Karen Root (Encore! EP381)  

With two of Ireland's leading writers: recipient of the Rooney Prize, Dublin Literary Award and the Goldsmith Prize, Mike McCormack tells us about his latest book This Plague of Souls, while Paul Lynch, brings us into the frighteningly recognisable world of his Booker Prize Shortlisted novel Prophet Song. With music from singer songwriter Krea.

What makes people migrate? How does climate change drive mass migration in today's world? How serious is this problem? How serious will it become in the future? To answer these questions, Pedro Pinto interviews Abrahm Lustgarten in this episode of “It's Not That Simple”, a podcast by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation.An author and investigative reporter, Abrahm Lustgarten's work for ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine has been focused on climate change and our response to a rapidly changing environment. His recent investigations include a three-part series on global climate migration, an examination of the global palm oil trade, the climate drivers behind pandemics, and how climate change is driving global water scarcity. His 2015 series examining the causes of water scarcity in the American West, “Killing the Colorado,” was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and received the top honor from the National Academy of Sciences. His earlier investigation into the environmental and economic consequences of fracking received the George Polk award for environmental reporting, the National Press Foundation award for best energy writing, a Sigma Delta Chi award and was honored as finalist for the Goldsmith Prize. He is also a 2022 Emerson Collective Fellow at New America, and a recipient of grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to supporting his forthcoming book about climate-driven migration. He teaches a course on narrative writing about climate change at the University of California, Berkeley.In this episode, Lustgarten discusses how climate change can impact social issues which in turn can impact political circumstances and drive to mass migration events. He looks at the growing number of areas of the planet that are or are likely to become uninhabitable and considers the political impact of being a destination of mass migration. He also examines why climate change is something that can be hard for people to fully understand or accept. Finally, he discusses what we can and have to do to mitigate climate change and its consequences, in a conversation well worth listening to.              More on this topic• China's Great Train: Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet, Abrahm Lustgarten, 2008• Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster, Abrahm Lustgarten, 2012• Abrahm Lustgarten's award-winning story on “The Water Crisis in the West”https://www.propublica.org/series/killing-the-colorado• Abrahm Lustgarten's ProPublica storieshttps://www.propublica.org/people/abrahm-lustgarten • A series of stories by Abrahm Lustgarten published in The New York Times Magazinehttps://www.newamerica.org/our-people/abrahm-lustgarten/• Abrahm Lustgarten on “The Great Climate Migration”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6QoCDcEzg• Abrahm Lustgarten on how “The Great Climate Migration Has Begun”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvaI9nxSKAw• Podcast It's Not That Simple “Climate Change”, with Bill McKibbenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDIIzdst6Fo Other references in Portuguese• Essay of the Foundation “Alterações Climáticas” by Filipe Duarte Santoshttps://www.ffms.pt/publicacoes/detalhe/5409/alteracoes-climaticas• Essay of the Foundation “Riscos Globais e Biodiversidade” by Maria Amélia Martins-Louçãohttps://www.ffms.pt/publicacoes/detalhe/5682/riscos-globais-e-biodiversidade• Podcast [IN] Pertinente “Alterações Climáticas: Ainda vamos a tempo?” with Johan Rockströmhttps://www.ffms.pt/conferencias/detalhe/5799/alteracoes-climaticas-ainda-vamos-a-tempo-uma-entrevista-a-johan-rockstrom• Podcast Da Capa à Contracapa “Como responder aos desafios das alterações climáticas?” with  Filipe Duarte Santos

Rui Kaneya, a senior editor at ProPublica, joins The Lead to talk about why local news is important and what it takes to become an investigative journalist. Rui oversees projects for ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, which supports long-term projects at local news sources. He's worked at multiple nonprofit news sources as an investigative reporter and editor, and was part of a team that won the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series about model legislation.   Guest: Rui Kaneya

For readers of War Dogs and Bad Blood, an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic, from the award-winning ProPublica reporter who saw it firsthand. The United States federal government has spent over $10 billion on medical protective wear and emergency supplies, yet as COVID-19 swept the nation, life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves, and ventilators was nearly impossible to find. In this brilliant nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter J. David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments in American history to fill their pockets. Determined to uncover how this was possible, he spent over a year on private jets and in secret warehouses, traveling from California to Chicago to Washington DC, to interview both the most treacherous of profiteers and the victims of their crimes. Pandemic, Inc. is the story of the fraudster who signed a multi-million-dollar contract with the government to provide lifesaving PPE, and yet never came up with a single mask. The Navy admiral at the helm of the national hunt for additional medical resources. The Department of Health whistleblower who championed masks early on and was silenced by the government and conservative media. And the politician who callously slashed federal emergency funding and gutted the federal PPE stockpile. Winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, McSwane connects the dots between backdoor deals and the spoils systems to provide the definitive account of how this pandemic was so catastrophically mishandled. Shocking and revelatory, Pandemic, Inc. exposes a system that is both deeply rigged, and singularly American.

Jeffrey Fleishman, author of the brand new novel, Good Night, Forever (Blackstone), and Barbara DeMarco-Barrett talk about setting your book where you live, side characters, crime fiction and social issues, and so much more. Download audio.  Jeff Fleishman is foreign and national editor at the Los Angeles Times. Previously, he was a senior writer on film, art and culture. A 2002 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, Fleishman was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing. A longtime foreign correspondent, he served as bureau chief for The Times in Cairo and Berlin, and was previously based in Rome for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has been a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and a finalist for the Center for Public Integrity's Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting. He is the author of three novels: “My Detective,” “Shadow Man” and “Promised Virgins: A Novel of Jihad.” (Recorded on April 27, 2022.) Music and sound design by Travis Barrett  Barbara DeMarco-Barrett: www.penonfire.com Marrie Stone: www.marriestone.com Travis Barrett: https://travisbarrett.mykajabi.com

Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick by J. David McSwane For readers of War Dogs and Bad Blood, an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic, from the award-winning ProPublica reporter who saw it firsthand. The United States federal government has spent over $10 billion on medical protective wear and emergency supplies, yet as COVID-19 swept the nation, life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves, and ventilators was nearly impossible to find. In this brilliant nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter J. David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments in American history to fill their pockets. Determined to uncover how this was possible, he spent over a year on private jets and in secret warehouses, traveling from California to Chicago to Washington DC, to interview both the most treacherous of profiteers and the victims of their crimes. Pandemic, Inc. is the story of the fraudster who signed a multi-million-dollar contract with the government to provide lifesaving PPE, and yet never came up with a single mask. The Navy admiral at the helm of the national hunt for additional medical resources. The Department of Health whistleblower who championed masks early on and was silenced by the government and conservative media. And the politician who callously slashed federal emergency funding and gutted the federal PPE stockpile. Winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, McSwane connects the dots between backdoor deals and the spoils systems to provide the definitive account of how this pandemic was so catastrophically mishandled. Shocking and revelatory, Pandemic, Inc. exposes a system that is both deeply rigged, and singularly American.

Award-winning ProPublica reporter J. David McSwane joins Zerlina and Jess on the show to discuss his new book PANDEMIC, INC.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick, out now!It's an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic. Investigating anonymous tips and financial data about federal PPE contracts, McSwane spent over a year traveling the country and interviewing both the most treacherous profiteers and the victims of their crimes to find out just how things got so bad, so quickly.J. David McSwane is a reporter in ProPublica's Washington, DC, office. Previously, he was an investigative reporter for The Dallas Morning News and the Austin-American Statesman. McSwane's reporting has spurred new laws and state and federal criminal investigations; forced belt-tightening lawmakers to invest in social programs; and won awards including Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize, a Scripps Howard award, two IRE awards, and the Peabody.To date, the United States federal government has spent over $10 billion on medical protective wear and emergency supplies—and states have spent even more—yet shortages of lifesaving protective equipment persist. While hundreds of thousands of people died, disproportionately in poor and marginalized communities, a handful of “pirates” used this dark moment to fill their pockets. PANDEMIC, INC. is the story of those at the heart of this latest era of disaster capitalism —including the man who signed a multi-million-dollar contract with the government to provide lifesaving PPE, yet never came up with a single mask; the Department of Health whistleblower who championed masks early on, but was silenced by the government and conservative media; and the politician who callously slashed federal emergency funding and gutted the federal PPE stockpile. This gripping journalistic account uncovers the stories of fraud and empty promises that prioritized cash over human lives. Horrifying yet eye-opening and written with sharp scrutiny, PANDEMIC, INC. is a brilliant indictment of a system that is both deeply rigged, and singularly American.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by J. David McSwane, the author of Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick. J. David McSwane is a reporter in ProPublica's DC office. Previously, he was an investigative reporter for The Dallas Morning News and the Austin American-Statesman. McSwane's reporting has spurred new laws, state and federal criminal investigations, and forced belt-tightening lawmakers to invest in social programs. He has won numerous awards, including Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize, a Scripps Howard Award, two Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, and the Peabody. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Raising The Bar Podcast, Allison talks with Marshall Allen. He is a Healthcare Reporter, Founder, and CEO of Allen Health Academy and the author of NEVER PAY THE FIRST BILL. Marshall Allen was a reporter at ProPublica investigating the cost and quality of our health care. He is one of the creators of ProPublica's Surgeon Scorecard, which published the complication rates for about 17,000 surgeons who perform eight common elective procedures. Allen's work has been honored with several journalism awards, including the Harvard Kennedy School's 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and coming in as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for work at the Las Vegas Sun, where he worked before coming to ProPublica in 2011. Before he was in journalism, Allen spent five years in full-time ministry, including three years in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a master's degree in Theology. Are you ready to Raise the Bar?Make sure to take away the notes! Conversation Highlights:[00:01:41] Who is Marshall Allen?● How did Marshall become a healthcare reporter?● Why did Marshal choose ‘Never Pay the First Bill' as his book's title?● People do not care much about health and money. [00:06:53] Why are employers the sleeping giants of healthcare reform?● Health insurance is an employee's compensation. [00:12:57] What are the game-changing things for employees?● Employees and employers need to team together to navigate pitfalls. [00:16:49] Who is Marilyn Bartlett?● What is reference-based pricing?● How can you collect fair and accurate prices for your bill? [00:26:35] Patients are not the actual customers.● What are different penalties for employers if they don't provide the necessary information? [00:33:06] The Highest-paid COVID test!● Frauds are common these days. [00:40:00] David William's case… [00:42:28] Q&A session with Marshall● Marshall's appeal to the employers● The big problem is the business side of industries. [00:48:46] What is Direct Patient Care? [00:50:29] Open questions with Marshall…● Takeaway for Advisors and Brokers [01:00:32] Allen Health Academy Memorable Quotes:“Employers are the sleeping giant of healthcare reform.""Insurance companies are not guardians for our healthcare dollars; we have to protect our money." Special Reminder:Thanks for checking out the show. Be sure to subscribe and leave a review.If you have an idea or topic for the show, or maybe you want to be on the show, visit us at https://raisingthebar.live. Reach out to Marshall Allen:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marshallallenTwitter: https://twitter.com/marshall_allenProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/people/marshall-allenWebsite: https://www.marshallallen.com/ Book: Never Pay the First Bill by Marshall Allen Connect with Allison:YouTube: AltiqeLinkedIn: Allison De PaoliWebsite: https://altiqe.comPlease email her at clientcare@altiqe.com Available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and other major podcasting platforms.

In this episode of Raising The Bar Podcast, Allison talks with Marshall Allen. He is a Healthcare Reporter, Founder, and CEO of Allen Health Academy and the author of NEVER PAY THE FIRST BILL. Marshall Allen was a reporter at ProPublica investigating the cost and quality of our health care. He is one of the creators of ProPublica's Surgeon Scorecard, which published the complication rates for about 17,000 surgeons who perform eight common elective procedures. Allen's work has been honored with several journalism awards, including the Harvard Kennedy School's 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and coming in as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for work at the Las Vegas Sun, where he worked before coming to ProPublica in 2011. Before he was in journalism, Allen spent five years in full-time ministry, including three years in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a master's degree in Theology. Are you ready to Raise the Bar? Make sure to take away the notes! Conversation Highlights: [00:01:41] Who is Marshall Allen? ●    How did Marshall become a healthcare reporter? ●    Why did Marshal choose ‘Never Pay the First Bill' as his book's title? ●    People do not care much about health and money. [00:06:53] Why are employers the sleeping giants of healthcare reform? ●    Health insurance is an employee's compensation. [00:12:57] What are the game-changing things for employees? ●    Employees and employers need to team together to navigate pitfalls. [00:16:49] Who is Marilyn Bartlett? ●    What is reference-based pricing? ●    How can you collect fair and accurate prices for your bill? [00:26:35] Patients are not the actual customers. ●    What are different penalties for employers if they don't provide the necessary information? [00:33:06] The Highest-paid COVID test! ●    Frauds are common these days. [00:40:00] David William's case… [00:42:28] Q&A session with Marshall ●    Marshall's appeal to the employers ●    The big problem is the business side of industries. [00:48:46] What is Direct Patient Care? [00:50:29] Open questions with Marshall… ●    Takeaway for Advisors and Brokers [01:00:32] Allen Health Academy Memorable Quotes: “Employers are the sleeping giant of healthcare reform." "Insurance companies are not guardians for our healthcare dollars; we have to protect our money." Special Reminder: Thanks for checking out the show. Be sure to subscribe and leave a review. If you have an idea or topic for the show, or maybe you want to be on the show, visit us at https://raisingthebar.live/ (https://raisingthebar.live). Reach out to Marshall Allen: ●    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marshallallen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marshallallen) ●    Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/marshall_allen?lang=en (https://twitter.com/marshall_allen) ●    ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/people/marshall-allen (https://www.propublica.org/people/marshall-allen) ●    Website: https://www.marshallallen.com/ (https://www.marshallallen.com/)                          Book: ●    https://www.amazon.com/Never-Pay-First-Bill-Health/dp/B08RQWSJ9C (Never Pay the First Bill) by Marshall Allen Connect with Allison: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC7GtNnmefrjeNAzE9sWu0Q?view_as=subscriber (Altiqe) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-de-paoli-b48825/ (Allison De Paoli) Website: https://altiqe.com/ (https://altiqe.com) Please Email her at clientcare@altiqe.com Available on Apple Podcast, Spotify,...

Welcome to day 3 of the Pagecast Holiday Round-up. Arthur De Weduwen is associate editor of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project at St Andrews. This is his first book. Andrew Pettegree is one of the leading experts on Europe during the Reformation. He currently holds a professorship at St Andrews University where he is the director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue Project. He is the author of The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself (winner of the Goldsmith Prize) and Brand Luther: 1517, Printing and the making of the Reformation, among other publications. Co-produced by Ingrid Klückow and Nicola Bruns. A special thanks to Boomhuis studios for the studio time and technical support.

Welcome to day 3 of the Pagecast Holiday Round-up. Arthur De Weduwen is associate editor of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project at St Andrews. This is his first book. Andrew Pettegree is one of the leading experts on Europe during the Reformation. He currently holds a professorship at St Andrews University where he is the director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue Project. He is the author of The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself (winner of the Goldsmith Prize) and Brand Luther: 1517, Printing and the making of the Reformation, among other publications. Co-produced by Ingrid Klückow and Nicola Bruns. A special thanks to Boomhuis studios for the studio time and technical support.

Healthcare journalist Marshall Allen joins Chris to discuss why you should never pay the first medical bill you receive. He also shares hacks that can help you prevent big medical bills before you get care, remove unreasonable charges, appeal insurance decisions, and lower the amount you pay for prescription drugs. Marshall Allen (@marshall_allen) was a reporter at ProPublica investigating the cost and quality of the U.S. healthcare system for over a decade. His work has been honored with several journalism awards, including the Harvard Kennedy School's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. He is also the author of Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win.Full show notes at: https://allthehacks.com/hacking-healthcare-marshall-allen Selected Links From The EpisodeConnect with Marshall Allen: Website | Twitter | LinkedInMarshall's Book: Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and WinMarshall Allen's Insurance Appeal MemosApple Health AppProPublica Surgeon Scorecard ProjectSave on prescription drugs: GoodRX | Good Shepherd Drug price comparison: Consumer Reports on Drug Prices Full Show NotesWho is Marshall Allen? [00:17]Why Marshall Allen dedicated his career to reporting about healthcare. [01:30]When he felt he had to write a book. [03:23]Important statistics about the healthcare crisis in the United States (and what it means to be functionally uninsured). [04:40]What does it mean to win the fight against the health care system? [07:01]A common cost you can probably avoid on your medical bill. [07:58]Should you negotiate your medical bill even if you have a low deductible? [09:13]The main reason the U.S. healthcare system is so broken. [13:26]Easy big wins to save on healthcare. [15:43]Are healthcare prices negotiable? [19:37]Why you should always ask for an itemized medical bill. [22:25]Chris' case studies: same ailment, two facilities, different charges. [23:23]Do hospitals have an obligation to charge a fair price? [29:10]What do you do when you receive unreasonable medical bills (how to sue in small claims court and what the open price term is). [31:56]Getting a medical bill before your insurance company responds to the charge (getting tricked to double pay).[42:46]How to fight your insurance company when they reject the care you need. [44:49]What if your insurance company doesn't cover the latest medical discoveries? [46:47]How do you find the best care (key indicators of medical quality)? [51:09]A question that will help you save money on procedures you don't need. [55:36]How to pick the right healthcare plan (while still saving money) [59:12]Health Savings Account vs. Flexible Savings Account. [1:03:32]Saving money on prescription drugs. [1:05:54]Boosting healthcare literacy in the U.S.  [1:07:48]Reach out to Marshall Allen. [1:11:17] SponsorThis episode is brought to you by BlockFi. BlockFi is the company I use to store all my crypto and I think they provide huge value because. Whether you buy your crypto with them or transfer in what you already have, you can start earning interest on all of it, which is a great way to earn some passive income with almost no effort. And that also includes stable coins based in us dollars where you can earn 9% without having your savings fluctuate with the crypto markets. This is where I store the cash I used to keep at a high yield savings account. Since opening my account, I've already earned thousands of dollars of interest.BlockFi also has a rewards credit card that instead of earning points or miles gives you Bitcoin back on every purchase you make offering 3.5% back in the first three months and 1.5% percent back after that. If you want to check out BlockFi, you can get an exclusive bonus of up to $250 free when you sign at https://allthehacks.com/blockfi. Connect with All the HacksAll the Hacks: Newsletter | Website | Facebook | EmailChris Hutchins: Twitter | Instagram | Website | LinkedIn

Marshall Allen is an investigative journalist that has spent more than fifteen years exposing the ways that the health care industry preys on vulnerable Americans. Marshall currently writes for ProPublica and was part of the team to be a Pulitzer finalist for their work in covering COVID-19. In this episode, Marshall discusses how his time investigating the American healthcare system has led to writing his new book, titled “Never Pay the First Bill: and Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win.” Marshall's career has seen him honoured with multiple journalism awards, such as the Harvard Kennedy School's 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and coming in as a finalist for the Pulitzer for his work at the Las Vegas Sun, where he worked before writing at ProPublica in 2011. In this episode, you'll hear about real-life victories as employers and employees fight the healthcare industry. From dealing with price gouging, errors in billing, fraud and unnecessary treatments, Marshall has seen it all. Tune in to hear how employers and employees can fight back and protect themselves from being taken advantage of by the healthcare delivery and payment system. Here's a glance at what you'll hear from Marshall in this episode: Why Americans pay so much for healthcare whilst getting so little in return How Marshall's career in investigative journalism led to him writing ‘Never Pay the First Bill' Why the business side of healthcare was designed to exploit both clinicians and patients How hospitals and insurance companies look after each other rather than the employee/employer. The inefficiencies and errors presented in the majority of medical bills and how to fight back Timestamps: 0:20 – Introduction to Marshall Allen 2:20 – Why did Marshall write: ‘Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win' 7:08 – “The business side of healthcare was designed to exploit both clinicians and patients” – How the healthcare system takes advantage of Americans 9:00 – The price variation patients deal with when going to hospital 11:35 – Why aren't hospitals showing transparent pricing and why aren't insurance companies loyal to the employer/employee? 15:15 – Employers are passing costs onto their employees 16:30 – Increasing health literacy for employees and employers 17:20 – How common are errors in medical bills? 19:20 – The medical debt collecting industry 21:30 – How to deal with medical debt 22:18 – Why would you sue a medical provider for an unfair bill 24:20 – The open price contract rule: Don't pay more than Medicare would 26:04 – How a hospital would react to a lawsuit in Small Claims Court 28:00 – Using a referenced based pricing plan and why hospitals don't like it 30:20 – Share your medical finance victories with Marshall 31:10 – Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court 31:58 – Being aware of medical finance risks and how to avoid them 33:45 – Avoiding unnecessary care 34:10 – Avoiding immediate care 35:20 – Mammograms: An unnecessary care example? 38:05 – Stories of fraud in medical care and finance 40:40 – The David Williams case 44:00 – Who investigates fraud? 46:30 – Standing up to a bully: How to push back 49:45 – How to connect with Marshall Allen Resources: Follow Marshall Allen on ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/people/marshall-allen (https://www.propublica.org/people/marshall-allen) Follow Marshall Allen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/marshall_allen?lang=en (https://twitter.com/marshall_allen?lang=en) Connect with Marshall Allen via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marshallallen/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marshallallen/) Never Pay the First Bill on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3tS01ZQ (https://amzn.to/3tS01ZQ) Marshall Allen's website: https://www.marshallallen.com/about-marshall (https://www.marshallallen.com/about-marshall) Fair Health Consumer: https://www.fairhealthconsumer.org/ (https://www.fairhealthconsumer.org/)...

“Scientists Announce Successful Experiment to Bankrupt Mouse That Can't Afford Cancer Drug.” That's a recent headline from The Onion, which is, by the way, a funny satire newspaper, if you haven't heard of it. You could swap out “Cancer Drug” in that headline with “a Trip to the ER”—or pretty much any aspect of health care in this country. No matter what health care service you stick in there as the potential cause for a mouse's bankruptcy, it's a pretty LOL headline, right? But the reason why it became a headline is because obviously it's based on a truth that resonates with your regular citizens in this country. Think about that. A critical mass of people around here believe that health care will bankrupt you. This is one of those sociological signals that has implications to health care leaders. Here's another signal with implications. In this health care podcast, I'm interviewing the incomparable Marshall Allen. That's not the signal. His book, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win, a book with that title being on the New York Times best seller list, is the signal. Marshall's book is an instruction manual for patients on how to fight back against unfair and/or egregiously inaccurate bills.  This interview with Marshall Allen is different from others that you may be hearing. Marshall wrote a book to motivate patients, a critical mass of patients, to get empowered relative to their health care bills. Because listeners of this show are health care executives, I wanted this interview to be relevant to you. What does this book mean for you? Doug Aldeen told me one time, unless something has a direct impact on the CEO or leadership team at a health system or insurance company, they're just bored. Let me sum up this interview in one sentence: This is not boring. If you want to skip to the exact examples of “not boring,” you can skip ahead to about the 30-minute mark. We go through the ways that health systems can and probably will be hurt by the financial toxicity that they create. Here's the three-ish ways that Marshall and I talk about: Doctors who no longer trust their employers (ie, the health systems they work for) leave and then you have to recruit new doctors—#problematicandexpensiveonanumberoflevels, but I don't need to tell you that. Reputational damage. When the slogan on the door becomes a joke, that's a problem. Employers and taxpayers reading best-selling books like this one and Marty Makary's (which also is or was just recently on the best seller list) and learning how to not be basically passive suckers anymore.  You can find Marshall's book, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win, anywhere that books are sold. Marshall Allen investigates why we pay so much for health care in the United States and get so little in return. He is the author of the new book, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win. He is also the founder of Allen Health Academy, which produces a curriculum of short on-demand videos to equip and empower employees to navigate the health care system. Marshall has investigated the health care industry for 15 years, including a decade at ProPublica. He has also spent a decade as an educator at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at The City University of New York. His work has been honored with many journalism awards, including some of the top business reporting honors, the Harvard Kennedy School's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and twice as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Before he was in journalism, Marshall spent 5 years in full-time ministry, including 3 years in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a master's degree in theology.  03:35 What's the point of view that Marshall is coming from with his investigative reporting? 04:06 “How does this affect the people who are paying for it and the people who are undergoing the care?” 04:58 “There's a lot of good people working within this very messed up system.” 05:12 Why are patients considered outsiders in the health care system? 05:55 “What's happened in health care is that the stakeholders treat each other more as the customer.” 07:54 What is upcoding? 11:27 “These are schemes that have been created within the industry to increase revenue.” 11:56 “This system is not set up for the benefit of the patient.” 12:22 “On the financial side, the industry is actually oppressing the American people.” 12:39 Can a critical mass of patients force health systems to become more accountable? 16:02 “We have been expected to pay whatever aggregate sum is thrown at us.” 17:09 Why have patients been so passive toward this crooked health care system so far? 18:04 “They're violating the trust of the American people when they don't treat us fairly.” 19:28 “It's totally legal to do that, [but] is it ethical?” 20:11 What's the difference between making a profit and profiteering? 21:43 “It's hard to argue against your own paycheck.” 29:57 “The things that matter most to people are their health and their money.” 33:51 What are the first-order and second-order consequences of what's happening in health care right now, and which of these consequences will actually drive change? 34:56 “When you tell the truth about what's going on … they become so ashamed … that they change their behavior.” 36:10 “The patient … is not their most important customer.” 39:03 “The sleeping giant is the employers.” You can find Marshall's book, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win, anywhere that books are sold. @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem “How does this affect the people who are paying for it and the people who are undergoing the care?” @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem “There's a lot of good people working within this very messed up system.” @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem Why are patients considered outsiders in the health care system? @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem “These are schemes that have been created within the industry to increase revenue.” @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem “This system is not set up for the benefit of the patient.” @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem “On the financial side, the industry is actually oppressing the American people.” @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem Can a critical mass of patients force health systems to become more accountable? @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem Why have patients been so passive toward this crooked health care system so far? @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem “They're violating the trust of the American people when they don't treat us fairly.” @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem “It's totally legal to do that, [but] is it ethical?” @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem What's the difference between making a profit and profiteering? @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem “It's hard to argue against your own paycheck.” @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem “The things that matter most to people are their health and their money.” @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem “The sleeping giant is the employers.” @marshall_allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill,” discusses #financialtoxicity in the #healthcaresystem on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthsystem

Today's guest, Irish Canadian writer Anakana Schofield, joins us to talk about her latest novel, Bina, winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. Bina was also shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmith Prize, awarded to fiction that pushes the boundaries of form (in the spirit of  Walter Benjamin who said “All great works of […] The post Anakana Schofield : Bina appeared first on Tin House.

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Barton Gellman, the author of "Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State", to discuss the top secret establishment of the surveillance state. Barton Gellman, a staff writer at The Atlantic, is the author most recently of Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State and the bestselling Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. He has held positions as senior fellow at The Century Foundation, Lecturer at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and visiting research collaborator at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. Before joining The Atlantic, Gellman spent 21 years at The Washington Post, where he served tours as legal, diplomatic, military and Middle East correspondent. Gellman anchored the team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of the National Security Agency and Edward Snowden. He was previously awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series on Vice President Dick Cheney. In 2002, he was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for coverage of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath. Other professional honors include two George Polk Awards, two Overseas Press Club awards, two Emmy awards for a PBS Frontline documentary, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Gellman graduated with highest honors from Princeton University and earned a master’s degree in politics at University College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. He lives in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Papercuts - the podcast all about books! Sit back, relax and let Jenna, Kiran and Louisa tempt you with the best new titles to add to your book stack.The gang are back with their usual witches brew of book news, insightful book reviews and discussions, not-book reviews and their dangerously teetering TBR piles.Books reviewed this episode:KD: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador/Grove Atlantic)LK: Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Daunt Books)JT: Earthlings by Sayaka Murata (Granta)Not books:KD: Magazines are back! Welcome back Metro and North & SouthLK: Season Two of His Dark Materials and Daisy Johnson’s horror fiction recommendations.JT: Chris Parker’s This is How I FeltThe TBR Pile:KD: 2020 NZ fiction for judging the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for the 2021 Ockhams and books from a Fitzcarraldo Editions subscriptionLK: White is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi and The Residents by Lucy RevillJT: Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar and Remote Sympathy by Catherine ChidgeyBook news:Shuggie Bain won the Booker Prize! The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison won the Goldsmith Prize!A book about the bloody Beatles has won the Baillie Gifford Prize! The National Book Awards 2020 winners have been announced!Also mentioned:A scathing review of Dolly Alderton’s novel GhostsAn excellent Guardian interview with Brandon TaylorThe High Low podcast is drawing to an endGet in touch:Email:

Now, a conversation with New York Times investigative reporter Chris Hamby about his new book, Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia, just pubished by Hachette Books (Little Brown). The book builds on Hamby's 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning series of reports about how a resilient Appalachian mining community fought back against a resurgence of black lung disease, the indifference of coal industry executives, and the complicity of doctors at Baltmore's prestigious Johns Hopkins hospital. In 2017, Hamby was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for his accounts of how multinational corporations use aggressive legal tactics to pressure governments around the world. He has reported on a wide variety of subjects, including labor, public health, the environment, criminal justice, politics and international trade. His work has also been honored with Harvard University's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, two White House Correspondent's Association awards and UCLA's Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, among other honors. Before joining The New York Times in 2019, Hamby was an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News, and he previously worked for The Center for Public Integrity. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond and master’s from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. A native of Nashville, Tenn., he lives and works in Washington, D.C. Chris Hamby joins us today on Zoom.

Barton Gellman was one of three people who received the explosive archives of highly classified National Security Agency files revealing the extent of the agency’s global surveillance apparatus from Edward Snowden. This Washington Post veteran investigative reporter’s book “Dark Mirror” is not only the story of government overreach into private lives, but also a fascinating look into the life of Snowden and the byzantine world of investigative journalism. In spying and investigative journalism, no one can be fully trusted – including Snowden. Barton Gellman, a staff writer at The Atlantic, spent 21 years at the Washington Post, where he held positions as legal, diplomatic, military and Middle East correspondent. He wrote the best-selling “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency.” Gellman has won three Pulitzer Prizes: the 2014 Prize for Public Service for coverage of the National Security Agency and Edward Snowden, the 2008 Prize for National Reporting for a series on Vice President Dick Cheney, and the 2002 Prize for National Reporting for his Post team’s coverage of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath. Other professional honors include two George Polk Awards, two Overseas Press Club awards, two Emmy awards for a PBS Frontline documentary and Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Gellman graduated with highest honors from Princeton University and earned a master’s degree in politics at University College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. Sponsored by Dallas Baptist University

The concept of using foreign correspondents housed in other countries to help inform the American public of the news is a concept that goes back to Colonial days. Yet today, news organizations have drastically cut back on full-time correspondents abroad opting instead for a smaller reporting corps and the use of free-lancers and citizen journalists. So says long-time journalists and authors John Maxwell Hamilton and Peter Copeland as they discussed the history, present and future of using foreign correspondents to report news to America. Hamilton claims that Colonists re-published the news from newspapers abroad that arrived in the Colonies on ships. He says that the interest in the American public, at that time, was high to learn of news from the homelands of immigrants. Foreign correspondents also were used to convey news in the 19th Century and on through the 20th Century, according to Hamilton. He believes, however, that the pinnacle of the status of the foreign correspondent was between World War I and World War II. Copeland states unfortunately that news organizations started cutting foreign correspondent staffs as a cost cutting measure at the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st Century. He notes that now news organizations are relying more and more on freelance correspondents or citizen reporting through smart phones. He notes that it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to check the accuracy of the some citizen reporting from world hotspots, thereby making accurate reporting difficult, at times. Hamilton is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor in Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Journalism and a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, in Washington, D.C. He also was the founding dean of the Manship School and served as executive vice chancellor and provost at LSU. His most recent book is “Journalism’s Roving Eye” that won the Goldsmith Prize. Copeland has been a reporter for four decades and has covered everything from local crime stories to foreign news as a correspondent. He most recently was the editor and general manager of the Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C. His latest book has just been released. It is “Finding the News: Adventures of a Young Reporter.” It is a recount of part of Copeland’s career but it also offers advice for aspiring young journalists.

Author and presidential historian Richard Norton Smith speaks to the Steamboat Springs audience about what it means to be presidential in his talk "How Do You Get To Mt. Rushmore: Can Presidential Character Be Set In Stone?" Smith is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his first book, "Thomas E. Dewey and His Times." He is also author of "An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover" and his most recent book, "The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick," which has been awarded the Goldsmith Prize by Harvard's John F. Kennedy School. This Seminar was recorded on August 5, 2019.

Reporting from the South Bend Tribune and ProPublica revealed deep flaws and abuses of power in the criminal justice system in Elkhart, Indiana – from new revelations in the wrongful convictions of two men, to the promotions of police supervisors with serious disciplinary records, to the mishandling of police misconduct cases. The investigation led to the resignation of the police chief, criminal charges against two officers and plans for an independent investigation of the department, demonstrating the strong, immediate impact that investigative journalism can have at the local level – and its ability to force critical changes in communities. Read this excellent example of collaborative journalism here: https://www.southbendtribune.com/elkhartcoverage/ Heidi Legg talked to reporter Christian Sheckler from the south Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong from ProPublica, about the deep searches they did through public records to find evidence of misconduct, and the collaborative experience of reporting this story at the South Bend Tribune - a local newspaper with only 12 reporters.   This episode is part of the Shorenstein Center's special series of interviews with the finalists for the 2019 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism. The Goldsmith Prize winner will be announced at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government on March 12, 2019. Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com

ProPublica obtained and published a secret recording from inside a border patrol detention center that captured the sounds of children, recently separated from their families at the Mexican border, sobbing and begging for their parents. The audio clip was played on the floors of Congress, sparking widespread condemnation and having an almost immediate impact, with President Trump signing an executive order to end the family separation policy within 48 hours of its publication. ProPublica reporters then dug deeper into conditions at the detention centers, detailing abuse and assaults on immigrant children, directly countering the administration’s claims that the shelters were safe havens. Read, and listen, to their reporting here: https://www.propublica.org/series/zero-tolerance In this episode, Heidi Legg talks with reporters Ginger Thompson and Mike Grabell about getting the audio recording, and how their reporting unfolded and uncovered more and more layers from there.  This episode is part of the Shorenstein Center's special series of interviews with the finalists for the 2019 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism. The Goldsmith Prize winner will be announced at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government on March 12, 2019. Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com

In "Toxic City: Sick Schools" The Philadelphia Inquirer revealed unsafe conditions in Philadelphia’s rundown public schools, with children forced to learn in buildings rife with mold, asbestos and flaking and peeling lead paint. By scouring maintenance logs and conducting scientific testing inside 19 elementary schools, and engaging teachers and parents in their reporting, the Inquirer built a comprehensive database of the shocking conditions putting children at risk on a daily basis. Read the reporting: http://media.philly.com/storage/special_projects/lead-paint-poison-children-asbestos-mold-schools-philadelphia-toxic-city.html In this episode of the Shorenstein Center podcast, Heidi Legg talks to reporters Wendy Ruderman, Barbara Laker, and Dylan Purcell, along with Investigations Editor Jim Neff, about how they found and analyzed data, tracked an expanding web of problems, and eventually uncovered the vast number of health hazards across the city's school system.  This episode is part of the Shorenstein Center's special series of interviews with the finalists for the 2019 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism. The Goldsmith Prize winner will be announced at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government on March 12, 2019. Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com

FRONTLINE from PBS and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism produced an investigative documentary on labor trafficking happening today on U.S. soil. Reporters told the story of unaccompanied minors from Central America who were forced to work against their will at an Ohio egg farm, the criminal network that exploited them, the companies that profited, and how U.S. government policies and practices helped to deliver some of the children directly to their traffickers. The investigation uncovered widespread criminal abuse, and will be used as a Department of Justice Anti-Human Trafficking training tool for thousands of law enforcement officials and prosecutors. Watch the film: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/trafficked-in-america/ In this episode of the Shorenstein Center podcast, Heidi Legg talks to Daffodil Altan and Adrés Cediel about the shoeleather reporting required to find and get access to people who had been trafficked in the U.S., and the need for cultural competency and language fluency for reporting stories like these. This episode is part of the Shorenstein Center's special series of interviews with the finalists for the 2019 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism. The Goldsmith Prize winner will be announced at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government on March 12, 2019. Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com

The Dallas Morning News found that thousands of sick and disabled Texans were being denied life-sustaining drugs and treatments by the private health insurance companies hired by the state to manage their care. While these private contractors made billions of dollars from the corporate management of taxpayer-funded Medicaid, some of the most vulnerable Texans were denied critical services, equipment and treatments, often with profoundly life-altering results. As a result of the investigation the Texas legislature pledged millions of dollars to more closely regulate the system, monitor instances of denials of care, and reform the appeals process. Read the reporting: https://interactives.dallasnews.com/2018/pain-and-profit/index.html In this episode of the Shorenstein Center podcast, Heidi Legg talks to reporters David McSwane and Andrew Chavez about tracking down the patients and families affected, how they got to the bottom of why some of the most vulnerable patients were being denied the care they needed, and what's next with this story. This episode is part of the Shorenstein Center's special series of interviews with the finalists for the 2019 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism. The Goldsmith Prize winner will be announced at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government on March 12, 2019. Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com

Amid threats to his family’s personal safety, reporter Connor Sheets revealed extensive wrongdoing by an Alabama sheriff, including improper use of millions of dollars’ worth of public funds and the mistreatment of inmates in the county jail he runs. Sheets uncovered a history of misconduct that resulted in the ‘Beach House Sheriff’ losing his reelection bid, the launch of investigations into his conduct at the federal, state and local level, and proposed legislation to prevent Alabama sheriffs from pocketing public funds for personal enrichment. Read the reporting: https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2018/03/inside_etowah_county_jail_nigh.html Heidi Legg talks to Connor Sheets about what it's like to investigate a local elected official in a small state, how he broke the story based on a tip from a teenage lawnmower, and the changes that happened as a result of his reporting. This episode is part of the Shorenstein Center's special series of interviews with the finalists for the 2019 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism. The Goldsmith Prize winner will be announced at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government on March 12, 2019. Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com

Starting in 2016, a team from the Wall Street Journal, lead by reporters Michael Rothfeld and Joe Palazzolo, uncovered evidence that Donald Trump personally orchestrated a criminal scheme to suppress damaging sexual allegations, despite denials by the president. The coverage sparked a federal criminal investigation into campaign-finance abuses that will soon land the president’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, in prison. In this episode of the Shorenstein Center podcast, Heidi Legg talks to Michael Rothfeld and Joe Palazzolo about how the found the story, the lengths they went to uncover evidence, and the expected and unexpected outcomes of their ongoing reporting. This episode is part of the Shorenstein Center's special series of interviews with the finalists for the 2019 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism. The Goldsmith Prize winner will be announced at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government on March 12, 2019. Music provided by ExtremeMusic.com

In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. There was no meaningful background check, and he used his real name despite his notoriety as an award-winning investigative journalist. Four months later he had seen enough, and in short order he left to write an exposé that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Bauer joined us with excerpts from his book American Prisons: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment to weave a much deeper reckoning with his experiences. He shared his insider account of the private prison system, revealing how these establishments are not incentivized to tend to the health or safety of their inmates. Join Bauer for his blistering indictment of the private prison system and the powerful forces that drive it, and learn the sobering truth about the true face of justice in America. Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, Atlantic Media’s Michael Kelly Award, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, and at least 20 others. Bauer is the co-author, along with Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal, of a memoir, A Sliver of Light, which details his time spent as a prisoner in Iran. Recorded live at Seattle First Baptist Church by Town Hall Seattle on Tuesday, September 25, 2018. 

This podcast features conversations with journalists from three of the six finalists for the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting: the Miami Herald, The Washington Post, and a collaboration between NPR and ProPublica. You can hear the other three finalists on the previous episode of this podcast, and you can find more information and links to each investigate story by visiting goldsmithawards.org.  Conversations with:  The Washington Post Ellen Nakashima and Tom Hamburger RussiaThe Washington Post examined Russian interference in the 2016 election, possible links between the Trump campaign and Kremlin agents, and the United States’ response throughout 2017. The Post’s reporting contributed to the resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. NPR and ProPublicaNina Martin and Renee Montagne Lost Mothers The United States has the highest rate of maternal deaths in the developed world; NPR and ProPublica found at least half could be prevented with better care. This series tracked maternal deaths, saved lives by raising public awareness of complications, and prompted legislation in New Jersey and Texas. Miami HeraldCarol Marbin Miller, Audra D.S. Burch, Emily Michot, and the Miami Herald digital team Fight Club: An Investigation into Florida Juvenile JusticeThis investigation found widespread beatings and brutality, sexual exploitation, and medical neglect in Florida’s juvenile detention centers. As a result, the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice overhauled its hiring practices and created an Office of Youth and Family Advocacy to investigate complaints.

This podcast features conversations with journalists from three of the six finalists for the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting: the Asbury Park Press, BuzzFeed News, and a collaboration between STAT and the Boston Globe. We’ll hear from the other three finalists later this week, and you can find more information and links to each investigate story by visiting goldsmithawards.org.  Conversations with:  STAT and The Boston Globe David Armstrong and Evan Allen The Addiction TradeSTAT and The Boston Globe exposed treatment centers, middlemen, and consultants that exploited people seeking addiction treatment, and has led to criminal and congressional probes. Stories ranged from insurance fraud schemes, to poor care at Recovery Centers of America, to patient health put at risk on the TV program Dr. Phil. BuzzFeed News Melissa Segura Broken Justice In ChicagoBuzzFeed News investigated a Chicago detective accused by the community of framing more than 50 people for murder. The findings from the series led to the freeing of an innocent man from prison after 23 years, and authorities reviewed the cases of other prisoners. Asbury Park Press Shannon Mullen and Payton Guion Renter Hell This investigation exposed the hazardous living conditions of thousands of tenants in New Jersey’s government-supported housing. As a result, the state issued more than 1,800 violations, and two state senators introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at fixing many of the issues brought to light in the series.

Martin Luther did more than just serve as a catalyst for the Reformation. By nailing his 95 theses to the door of a Wittenberg, Germany, church in 1517, he became the world's first mass media figure and launched a new form of theological writing, argues University of St. Andrews Professor Andrew Pettegree. Andrew Pettegree is Professor Modern History at the University of St Andrews, and director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He is the author of a number of books on the Reformation and, more recently, the history of communication, including Reformation and the Culture of Communication, The Book in the Renaissance, and The Invention of News. In 2015, The Invention of News won the Goldsmith Prize of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

In this keynote address from the 2016 Goldsmith Awards in Political Journalism ceremony, Walter Isaacson, former chairman of CNN, former editor of TIME, and president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, spoke about the relationship between technology and journalism, and the potential business models for news media organizations in the future. To watch video of the full Goldsmith Awards ceremony, including the presentation of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, visit shorensteincenter.org. This Shorenstein Center lecture was recorded on March 3, 2016, at Harvard Kennedy School. 

On the show this month, Shane and Bob recap on all things awards, most notably the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards. In our regular book club slot we discuss Kevin Barry’s Goldsmith Prize-winning Beatlebone, our Second Look is Jonathan Coe’s What A Carve-Up while in Trilogy, our guest slot, we talk to Vanessa Fox […] La entrada Bookish – Episode 4 se publicó primero en Headstuff.

For his work on the domestic spying scandal, Lichtblau is the recipient of a Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and is also this year's recipient, with Times reporter James Risen, of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. The Pulitzer jury applauded them "for their carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate on the boundary line between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberty." Lichtblau has recently uncovered more government monitoring activities. The Swift story, in which counter-terrorism officials accessed the banking transactions of thousands of Americans from an international database, has alarmed many. The government's departure from typical practice in how they acquire large amounts of sensitive financial data has stirred concerns about legal and privacy issues. Eric Lichtblau covers federal law enforcement and national security issues for the Washington bureau of The New York Times. Before coming to the Times, he worked for the The Los Angeles Times for 15 years in both California and Washington, focusing on investigative reporting, legal affairs and law enforcement. He is currently working on a book on the remaking of federal law enforcement since 9/11. Lichtblau is also a guest commentator on television, appearing frequently on CNN, CNBC's Hardball, PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and C-SPAN's Washington Journal. He also appears regularly on NPR's All Things Considered. Lichtblau has given speeches for Cornell University, Syracuse University, Mensa, judicial and academic conferences, and other forums.