Angela Woodall

Reporter and Researcher

Healdsburg

award-winning reporter, researcher, journalism professor

Angela Woodall

Reporter and Researcher

Healdsburg

award-winning reporter, researcher, journalism professor

Directories of Doctors Who Treat the Poor Are Inaccurate, Hurting Access
Theresa Rivera, who lives in Shasta County and holds her youngest daughter in this family photo, has had trouble finding a doctor for her four oldest children through Medi-Cal, the state’s low-income health program. Claudia Boyd-Barrett and Angela Woodall contributed to this report. Directories of doctors given to low-income patients across California are highly inaccurate, making it difficult for them to get the health care they’re entitled to under state law, the California Health Report has found.
HealthyCal.org
New Protections in the Affordable Care Act are a Breakthrough for Trans People
Not long ago, Tiffany Woods received a letter from her doctor that it was time to have a regular cancer screening. Millions of women receive similar notices for cervical cancer prevention every year. Only Woods was born a man so a prostate screening would be more appropriate and medical necessary, even if she had fully transitioned to female physically.
HealthyCal.org
Insurance Could Help Former Inmates, But State and County Problems Have Slowed Enrollment
Trent Burton stands outside the Healthy Oakland clinic where he’s trying to get former inmates like himself enrolled in health insurance. Photos: Angela Woodall. California’s ambitious plan to enroll former prison and jail inmates in health insurance as part of an expansion funded by the Affordable Care Act has been foiled by an applications logjam, administrative errors and bureaucratic roadblocks.
HealthyCal.org
New Health Program for Poor Residents With Disabilities and the Elderly Could Hurt Access, Advocates Say
Michael Williams, who as cerebral palsy and lives in Altadena, worries about losing his network of doctors under a new California initiative that attempts to streamline care for low-income people who also have a disability or are over 65. Photo: Angela Woodall. Michael Williams, who has cerebral palsy, has seen the same network of doctors for decades under two government health plans.
HealthyCal.org
Covered California Warns Consumers about Fraud
Fake websites and “Obamacare cards” used scam to consumers out of information and money. Understanding of the Affordable Care Act, the national health care program most people know simply as “Obamacare,” can be difficult for the savviest of consumers. Now scammers pretending to be from the government are poised to take advantage of confusion swirling around health care reform by trying to charge for fake “Obamacare cards” and falsely threatening to throw people in jail unless they buy insurance.
HealthyCal.org
Oakland to consider regulation of unattended collection boxes
Cities around the Bay Area have been cracking down on the big colorful bins that invite the donation of castoff clothes, shoes and books. For many people, they seemed like a convenient way to keep textiles out of the trash. But the boxes wore out their welcome in Berkeley, Fremont, San Jose, Union City, San Pablo and other Bay Area cities after complaints surfaced about piles of discarded clothes, graffiti and trash.
Contra Costa Times
Workday Breaks Silence On HP-Amazon Controversy
Workday broke the silence Wednesday about the high-profile deal between the company and Hewlett-Packard that appeared to tread on Amazon's cloud territory. HP Chief Operating Officer Bill Veghte caused a stir last week at the HP Discover conference when he announced HP had moved Workday over from Amazon's public cloud to HP's .
Custom Systems Magazine

About

Angela Woodall

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My work bridges journalism, rigorous scholarly research methods, and a background in digital technology development. This combination comes from more than a decade of experience as a newspaper reporter, a doctorate in 2023, and participation in civic technology, including as the founder the prize-winning civic app project, Civic Playground. I recently returned to the Bay Area after living in New York and then Paris where I taught communications and new media at the CELSA-Sorbonne University (and previously at New York University and Fordham University). The work you see on this site reflects stories published before I left daily reporting to pursue a Ph.D. degree at Columbia University but I will be adding more now that I have returned to community reporting. My appreciations to the editors who helped to craft some of them into prize-winning stories.