"Two dead among numerous people found 'suffocating' in train car in Texas"
Recipient of the Best Breaking News Coverage by a Radio Station award in The Charles E. Green Awards (2023)
Joey palacios
kstx texas public radio
Joey Palacios/TPR
Judge’s Comments:
Palacios clearly approached this difficult story with great compassion and tremendous reporting. Iâm glad to hear the host acknowledge Palacios’ background and experience covering these hard stories, itâs clearly obvious. The deep detail shared in this 2-way and story provides an immense public service on a critical subject.
Claudia Grisales
NPR Congressional Correspondent
Judge’s Bio:
Claudia Grisales is a congressional correspondent who covers Capitol Hill for NPR. She led coverage for the network in recent years covering reforms and investigations into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, in addition to wide-ranging stories on legislative efforts by members of Congress on everything from pandemic relief to military issues as well as campaign reporting. She has also contributed to the network’s overall coverage of public emergencies, including last year’s mass shooting in Uvalde.
Before joining NPR in June 2019, Grisales was a congressional reporter covering military affairs for Stars and Stripes. Her stories included breaking news involving fallen service members, the Trump administration's relationship with the military and toxic exposures to service members, such as the atomic veterans who participated nuclear bomb testing.
Prior to Stars and Stripes, Grisales was an award-winning reporter at the daily newspaper in Central Texas, the Austin American-Statesman, for 16 years. There, she covered the intersection of business news and regulation, energy issues and public safety. She also conducted a years-long probe that uncovered systemic abuses and corruption at Pedernales Electric Cooperative. The largest member-owned utility in the country saw the ousting of more than a dozen executives, state and U.S. congressional hearings and criminal convictions for the co-op's top leaders.
Grisales is originally from Chicago and is an alum of the University of Houston, the University of Texas and Syracuse University. At Syracuse, she attended the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she earned a master's degree in journalism.
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