Andrea Eger - Profile and Journalist Details

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Andrea Eger has worked at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Okla., since 1999, primarily covering education at the local level from 2000-2009 and expanding into education-related state policy matters beginning in 2010. Since 2015, she has also taken on special projects about high-profile murder cases and investigated a shocking series of unnatural deaths in state-run nursing homes for veterans. All along, she has covered the many criminal cases that arise in public school settings and pitched in on breaking news coverage of tornadoes, historic flooding, police shootings and state executions. In 2017, she was first runner-up for the honor of the nation's best education beat reporter at a medium-sized outlet, bestowed by the Education Writers Association, and for her work on the veterans center deaths she won the Inland Press Association's top honors for investigative reporting and community leadership and was an IRE finalist in Print/Online Division IV. In previous years, her work has garnered her Oklahoma’s top award for investigative reporting by an individual three times, and numerous first place awards in education and general news reporting from Society of Professional Journalists-Oklahoma Pro Chapter and the Great Plains Journalism Awards, an eight-state, regional competition. She has completed intensive professional development in education reporting with the former Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the Education Writers Association.

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