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Kiera Feldman is a former reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her work at the paper received two Gerald Loeb Awards, a Scripps Howard Award, a SABEW Award and a National Press Club Award. She was part of the team that was a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for reporting on California’s troubled rollout of cannabis legalization. Before coming to The Times in 2019, she investigated New York City’s private trash industry for ProPublica, exposing corruption and the mistreatment of vulnerable workers, which led to a federal investigation and new city laws. She won a Livingston Award in 2015 for an investigation of college sexual assault mishandling.
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