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William Ramsey

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Covers:  Housing, climate, mental health, social justice
News director, newsleader.com. Rode a tornado out of Texas, through skies over Kansas, bounced near the Puget Sound and ended up in idyllic Shenandoah Valley.
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Unity Park was Greenville's biggest price tag. Its cost might be Black neighborhoods, too.

Unity Park was Greenville's biggest price tag. Its cost might be Black neighborhoods, too.

The Greenville News — An investigation into the unrecognized harm from downtown Greenville’s revitalization efforts and a new, expensive Unity Park, which will continue to make historically Black neighborhoods unaffordable for the people who used to call them home. The reporting — with research help from partner Furman University — shows the staggering loss of Black residents from a city with one of the highest racial economic disparities in the Southeast.
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The East Coast is navigating a 'Perilous Course' confronting climate crisis in real time

The East Coast is navigating a 'Perilous Course' confronting climate crisis in real time

USA Today — A team of USA TODAY Network reporters examined how people up and down the East Coast are grappling with the climate crisis — from the natural disasters that grab headlines to the quieter forces gnawing at our personal stability, homes and livelihoods.
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USA TODAY

USA TODAY

USA Today — A major statewide investigation exposing shocking abuse in North Carolina's system of psychiatric youth centers, with Black and brown foster children paying the highest price.
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TAKEN: How police departments make millions by seizing property

TAKEN: How police departments make millions by seizing property

The Greenville News — When a man barged into Isiah Kinloch's apartment and broke a bottle over his head, the North Charleston resident called 911. After cops arrived on that day in 2015, they searched the injured man's home and found an ounce of marijuana. So they took $1,800 in cash from his apartment and kept it.
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Addicted nurses investigation

Addicted nurses investigation

newsleader.com — Led a yearlong investigation into Virginia nurses stealing drugs from patients
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Fact checking a sensitive story: 6 good questions with William Ramsey via API

Fact checking a sensitive story: 6 good questions with William Ramsey via API

americanpressinstitute.org — On the same day Rolling Stone magazine issued an apology for errors in a jarring story about campus rape, a small newspaper in western Virginia published an investigative series with similar sensitivities. In its transparency, The News Leader's "Addicted Nurses" series was different: No one in the story was anonymous, documents were provided, videos were recorded.
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Losing Norah

Losing Norah

newsleader.com — Led team on an emotional journey as we followed a family's battle with pediatric cancer
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Struggling to forgive

Struggling to forgive

newsleader.com — The Rev. Thomas Arner unsnaps the clasps on his cloth briefcase, a bag given him by the hospital at Christmas for his service as a chaplain, comforting the sick and their families. He unzips the interior of the bag, opens the small pocket inside and drops in his tiny .32-caliber pistol, carefully loaded with five bullets.
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