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Byard Duncan, ProPublica

Byard Duncan is an engagement reporter based in Oakland, California. Before joining ProPublica, he spent seven years at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. There, he and a team of other reporters were named Pulitzer Prize finalists in 2019 for their work investigating Amazon’s high rate of worker injuries. He is the recipient of two Gerald Loeb Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, a National Headliner Award and an Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award.

Tito Naranjo portrait, with photo of his burned home in Chacon

FEMA has paid out just 2% of fund to help wildfire victims rebuild. Some can’t wait much longer.

By: Patrick Lohmann and Byard Duncan, ProPublica - September 28, 2023

On a recent sunny morning in the high pastures of northern New Mexico, Tito Naranjo greeted a pair of federal surveyors on a patch of gravel where his traditional adobe home once stood. Naranjo used his walking stick to show them the outline of where his sunroom had been before it burned up in a […]

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