Katharine Mieszkowski, Author at Reveal

Accountability

The ticket trap

by Byard Duncan, Ike Sriskandarajah, Yoohyun Jung, Katharine Mieszkowski, Taki Telonidis, Amy Mostafa, Brett Simpson, Ameeta Ganatra, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Sarah Mirk, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson July 3, 2021August 2, 2021

Sports, theater and concert fans are excited venues are opening up again. So are clever ticket sellers who cash in on unsuspecting customers.

A baseball player is at bat and has a hit, which explodes in a red and yellow cascade of coins.

Labor

Minor league pay

by Katharine Mieszkowski, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Brett Simpson, Ameeta Ganatra, Sarah Mirk, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson March 27, 2021July 1, 2021

The baseball industry created an entire workforce exempt from being paid minimum wage and overtime – and players aren’t the only ones crying foul.

An illustration with a red background shows a man holding a ticket. The ticket dissolves in his hands into a series of pixels.

Accountability

The ticket trap

by Byard Duncan, Ike Sriskandarajah, Yoohyun Jung, Katharine Mieszkowski, Taki Telonidis, Al Letson, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs and Amy Mostafa February 6, 2021July 1, 2021

Sports, theater and concert fans are itching for events to start happening again. So are clever ticket sellers who cash in on unsuspecting customers.

Trump Supporters Hold "Stop The Steal" Rally In DC Amid Ratification Of Presidential Election

Accountability

Democracy under siege

by Kevin Sullivan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Al Letson, Brett Simpson, Anjali Kamat, Katharine Mieszkowski, Najib Aminy, Chris Harland-Dunaway, Michael Montgomery, Jen Chien, Taki Telonidis and Amy Mostafa January 9, 2021July 1, 2021

A mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, aiming to block the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory. How did we get here?

A group of world leaders posing for a photo at a NATO conference.

The Trump Era

Trump’s global echoes

by Jen Chien, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Amy Mostafa, Laura Starecheski, Katharine Mieszkowski and Brett Simpson November 18, 2020July 1, 2021

Over the last four years, as Americans were consumed by endless Trump news, our partners at Coda Story have tracked his echoes on the global stage.

An illustration shows a woman with a facemask reading 2020 holding up her ballot. Behind her, in a blue and purple swirl of colors, are ballots, voters, and other figures.

Accountability

United, we’re not

by Kevin Sullivan, Najib Aminy, Laura Starecheski, Brett Simpson, Brett Myers, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Emily Harris, Amy Mostafa, Al Letson, Taki Telonidis, Michael Montgomery, Matt Thompson, Jen Chien, Patrick Michels, Laura C. Morel, Stan Alcorn, Jennifer Gollan, Katharine Mieszkowski, Aura Bogado, Elizabeth Shogren, Andy Donohue, Esther Kaplan, Sumi Aggarwal and Claire Mullen November 14, 2020July 1, 2021

Where does America go from here? We talk with an asylum-seeking family, Georgia women on abortion and West Virginians on the impact of Black Lives Matter.

An illustration depicts a ballot on fire, which morphs into a building. A group of white men with guns stand outside the burning building.

Accountability

Remembering a White supremacist coup

by Kevin Sullivan, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Katharine Mieszkowski, Will Carless, Taki Telonidis, Esther Kaplan, Brett Simpson and Al Letson October 24, 2020July 1, 2021

Reveal looks back to a nearly forgotten 1898 election in North Carolina. A coup d’etat gave birth to much of the structural racism that exists today.

Behind the Smiles

How Amazon hid its safety crisis 

by Will Evans, Rachel de Leon, Katharine Mieszkowski, Soo Oh, Andy Donohue, Esther Kaplan, Matt Thompson and Nikki Frick September 29, 2020June 30, 2021

Robots. Prime Day. Holiday peak. Internal records show Amazon has deceived the public on rising injury rates among its warehouse workers.

A collage illustration shows a person against an orange background. There arm is in a sling made from a material that resembles an altered Amazon package.

Behind the Smiles

Catching Amazon in a lie

by Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Al Letson, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Will Evans, Jennifer Gollan, Katharine Mieszkowski, Taki Telonidis, Michael Montgomery, Andy Donohue, Esther Kaplan, Soo Oh, Rachel de Leon, Melissa Lewis and Chris Harland-Dunaway September 26, 2020July 1, 2021

Amazon says its warehouses are safe for workers. But the numbers reveal that workers are getting hurt much more often than the company claims.

Sarah James, in a winter coat, hats, and work gloves, sits astride a four-wheeled vehicle in front of pine trees and a mountain.

Sustainability

The refuge revealed

by Katharine Mieszkowski, Al Letson, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda and Jim Briggs August 29, 2020July 1, 2021

Oil rigs may soon be coming to the nation’s largest wildlife refuge. We find out what that could mean to the people who live there.

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