Huo Jingnan
Huo Jingnan (she/her) is an assistant producer on NPR's investigations team.
She works with journalists in the network and in member stations to produce original, in-depth reporting. She looked into how many homes sold by the Department of Housing and Urban Development are in flood zones and investigated why face mask guidelines differ between countries.
She was the primary data reporter on Coal's Deadly Dust, a project investigating black lung disease's resurgence. The project won an Edward Murrow Award and NASEM Communications award, and was nominated for an Emmy Award and a George Foster Peabody award.
Huo has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University in
Evanston, Illinois and a bachelor's degree in law from Southwest University of
Political Science and Law in Chongqing, China.
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The emergency management agency has long tried to respond to rumors that might delay recovery efforts. But a former FEMA official says the current information environment has never been so bad. -
False claims about the hurricane and the government’s response got millions of views on social media. Emergency management researchers say it makes it harder for useful information to surface. -
Sensationalized and out-of-context videos from influencers are helping to elevate the false and racist rumors that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating pets. -
Local police say they've seen no evidence of crimes against pets alleged by Vance and GOP allies. The claims appear to have been spread by a neo-Nazi group before gaining a wider audience online. -
NPR was able to produce depictions that appear to show ballot drop boxes being stuffed and of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump holding firearms.
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Republicans, led by former President Donald Trump, claim without evidence that Chinese migrants are spies or drug smugglers. Migrants' accounts tell a different story. -
Little is known about the alleged shooter in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Conspiracy theories have filled the void, and those narratives can be hard to dispel.
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The assassination attempt has supercharged conspiracy theories and threats of political violence that have characterized this presidential campaign from the outset. -
Now that people can easily create real-sounding voices with artificial intelligence, detection technologies are racing to catch deepfake audio, but it's a tough game of whack-a-mole. -
To talk about the current state of climate disinformation, we checked in with three NPR reporters who have reported on climate, disinformation and the media.
