Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP: Deliberate California power outages marked by chaos

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Justin Pritchard, investigative reporter, Los Angeles, and Michael Liedtke, reporter, San Francisco, obtained hundreds of pages of documents and interviews that allowed AP to report exclusively that four deliberate power shutoffs meant to prevent wildfires in California were fraught with failures in communication and other problems that put many people at risk. https://bit.ly/35Z8yOC

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