Neil Bedi is a reporter at ProPublica in Washington, D.C., where he covers the federal government. He was previously an investigative reporter at the Tampa Bay Times. “Targeted,” his 2020 National Fellowship project with 2016 National Fellow Kathleen McGrory, focused on a local predictive policing program in Pasco County, Florida that harassed residents and profiled schoolchildren. It received the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting and numerous other national awards. The reporting led to a federal investigation, and 30 national and state organizations formed a coalition to oppose the initiative. “Heartbroken,” his 2018 investigation with Kathleen into the alarming death rate at the cardiac surgery unit of a Florida children’s hospital, won the George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Neil has also been honored as a recipient of the Scripps Howard Award, the IRE Award, the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism and the National Headliner Award for Journalistic Innovation. He recently joined the Center for Health Journalism Advisory Board. Before becoming a journalist, he was a software developer. He studied computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Engineering. 

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