Ed Williams, a Searchlight investigative reporter, won the News Leader Association's Frank A. Blethen Award in local accountability reporting for his 2019 stories about abuses in the foster care system. He also was an NLA award finalist in 2020 for an expose about the abusive discipline of students with disabilities. Ed has been a reporter in both the United States and Latin America, working for print, digital and radio outlets. He spent seven years in public radio before joining Searchlight, where he covers foster care, social justice and other issues. He was a 2016 USC Annenberg Health Journalism Fellow and earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010.

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