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Anita Hassan

Reporter: Investigations

Anita Hassan joined the investigative team at the Las Vegas Review-Journal in August 2017. She previously worked as an investigative reporter for the Houston Chronicle, focusing primarily on criminal justice and public safety. Her award-winning reporting highlighted Houston's massive backlog of untested rape kits, county jail abuses and corruption in a state program for sex offenders. Her recent four-part investigation uncovered a series of failures in the criminal justice system that allowed a serial rapist in Houston to go free for nearly a decade.

Before joining the Chronicle’s I-team, she worked as the newspaper’s cops and general assignments reporter. As a college student, she worked with the Texas Innocence Network, investigating the innocence claims of death-row inmates.

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