Jeanne Pinder
Jeanne Pinder is challenging the U.S. health care system to be honest and transparent about what things cost. She has built a trailblazing digital startup, ClearHealthCosts, to reveal the secrets of health pricing. As founder and CEO of ClearHealthCosts, she has led deep reporting on this topic on the home site and in partnership with prestigious newsrooms in New Orleans, Philadelphia, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere. This work has won numerous journalism prizes – a national Edward R. Murrow award, a Society for Professional Journalists public service gold medal and a spot as a finalist for a Peabody Award, as well as numerous local and regional awards. Her TED talk has gone viral, with more than 1.4 million views. She worked at The New York Times for more than 20 years, then volunteered for a buyout and won a shark-tank-type pitch contest to start the company.