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WEBSep 14, 2024 · The Center for Investigative Reporting, which produces Mother Jones and Reveal, announced the hiring today of podcast innovator Kara McGuirk-Allison as Senior Radio Editor. She is the founding producer of NPR’s Hidden Brain, and in her new position will spearhead new programming aimed at Reveal’s podcast audience.
The Hate Report: Get to know the Three Percenters - Reveal
WEBMar 16, 2018 · One of the three suspects, Michael B. Hari, is a former sheriff’s deputy who submitted a proposal to build Trump’s border wall. JJ MacNab, an expert in the world of far-right extremism, uncovered that Hari ran a group called the White Rabbit Three Percent Illinois Patriot Freedom Fighters Militia. The group’s website called Illinois a ...
Listen to Reveal - Reveal
WEBReveal is the country’s first weekly investigative public radio show and podcast. Peabody Award-winning host Al Letson takes listeners across the country and the world, exposing wrongs and holding the powerful accountable. Whether it’s Amazon’s poor workplace safety record, inequity in the juvenile justice system or exploitation at drug ...
Reporting to police: A guide for victims of sexual abuse - Reveal
WEBAug 11, 2016 · In 2014 alone, more than 284,000 cases of rape and sexual assault occurred among people 12 and older, according to data from the National Crime Victimization Survey. The survey, conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, estimates that only a third of those instances were reported to police.
Atomic veterans: The legacy of watching nuclear blasts - Reveal
WEBMay 27, 2016 · In the aftermath of World War II and during the height of the Cold War – between 1946 and 1962 – the U.S. detonated more than 200 above-ground and undersea nuclear bombs. Over three months, Brooks would witness 27 of them. The atomic bomb blasts that Brooks witnessed took place almost 13 years after Hiroshima.
Part 1: Dirty secrets of the worst charities - Reveal
WEBJun 6, 2013 · John Pendygraft / Tampa Bay Times. The 50 worst charities in America devote less than 4 percent of donations raised to direct cash aid. Some charities give even less. Over a decade, one diabetes charity raised nearly $14 million and gave about $10,000 to patients. Six spent nothing at all on direct cash aid.
How Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit behemoth, suddenly imploded
WEBby Lance Williams September 20, 2016. Corinthian Colleges – a nationwide chain of for-profit schools – ballooned to 110,000 students and 105 campuses before it collapsed under the scrutiny of its high-interest loans, suspect recruiting practices and faked job placement statistics. Credit: VTT Studio/Shutterstock.com.
Hundreds of Marines investigated for sharing photos of naked
WEBMar 4, 2017 · The U.S. Department of Defense is investigating hundreds of Marines who used social media to solicit and share hundreds — possibly thousands — of naked photographs of female service members and veterans. Since Jan. 30, more than two dozen women – many on active duty, including officers and …
Modern-day redlining: Banks discriminate in lending - Reveal
WEBFeb 15, 2018 · Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts. This modern-day redlining persisted in 61 metro areas even when controlling for applicants’ income, loan amount and ...
How China maneuvered to buy US pork giant - Reveal
WEBApr 4, 2019 · China is unable to feed itself. Its appetite has grown too large, too fast. Last year, a Chinese company bought Smithfield Foods, the iconic ham brand and America’s largest pork producer in the largest Chinese purchase of an American business. The deal came two years after China’s communist government issued an edict directing its food ...