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Scooty Nickerson

Scooty Nickerson is a Bay Area News Group data reporter for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Nickerson won a 2021 IRE award for an audio and digital series that investigated worker deaths from heat illness and was reported by Columbia Journalism Investigations and NPR. He received Master's degrees in Applied Social Data Science at the London School of Economics and in Investigative Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. He graduated from Tufts University with a BA degree in history.

 

 

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