Hunting For Addicts

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Photographer

Emily Kassie
Prize

Moving Images Photographer Of the Year
Company/Studios

Nbc Left Field
Date of Photograph

Nov.29.2017
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Website

https://www.emilykassie.com

Insurance fraud, body-brokering and sex trafficking -- these are the schemes that have emerged in Florida's substance abuse treatment industry. Addicts who are lured in from around the country seeking treatment are getting caught in a vicious cycle of predatory scams and violent abuse. A multi-million dollar industry has emerged in the Sunshine state, funneling in victims to exploit for insurance fraud - many of whom are then sold for sex. As overdoses sky-rocket across the country, this is the story of those getting rich off a nation-wide drug epidemic.

Biography

Emily Kassie is an award-winning investigative visual journalist and filmmaker. Her work focuses on human rights, corruption and violence and she reports for a number of organizations including the New York Times, NBC, BBC, Highline/HuffPost among others. She is a World Press Photo multimedia winner, a PDN multimedia winner and a four-time NPPA winner. In 2017 she won the Punch Sulzberger award for reporting from the American Society of News Editors, the Overseas Press Club award for best digital reporting on international affairs and the National Magazine Award (ellie) for multimedia.
Awards

PDN Storytellers 1st place multimedia (2018) National Edward R. Murrow Award for Breaking News Coverage (2018) NPPA best in-depth video journalism (2018) NPPA best team video journalism (2018) Front Page Award for multimedia (2017) the newswomen's club of new york ASNE's Punch Sulzberger Award for online storytelling (2017) american society of news editors Overseas Press Club Award- best digital reporting on international affairs (2017) National Magazine Award for multimedia (2017) NPPA best multimedia (2017) 1st place multimedia PDN storytellers (2017) World Press Photo multimedia winner, immersive storytelling (2016) Gates Scholarship/fellowship (2016) NPPA multimedia journalism portfolio of the year (2016) Pulitzer center for investigative journalism grant recipient (2016) OJA - online journalism award for public service reporting (2016)