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Katharine Mieszkowski

Senior Reporter and Producer

Katharine Mieszkowski is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal. She's also been a senior writer for Salon and Fast Company. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Slate and on NPR's "All Things Considered."

Her coverage has won national awards, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award two years in a row, an Online News Association Award, a Webby Award and a Society of Environmental Journalists Award. Mieszkowski has a bachelor's degree from Yale University. She is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.

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Posted inCOVID-19

Pandemic, protests and profits

by Al Letson, Taki Telonidis, Kevin Sullivan, Katharine Mieszkowski, Mwende Hinojosa, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Byard Duncan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Will Evans, Melissa Lewis, Hannah Young, David Rodriguez, Andy Donohue and Chris Harland-Dunaway

Protesters around the country are pushing to loosen stay-at-home orders. Meanwhile, some Amazon workers say not enough is being done to protect them.

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Posted inCOVID-19, Kids on the Line

Detained and exposed

by Sarah Mirk, Kevin Sullivan, Al Letson, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Mwende Hinojosa, Laura C. Morel, Aura Bogado, Emily Harris, Stan Alcorn, Priska Neely, Katharine Mieszkowski, Brett Myers, Taki Telonidis, Jen Chien and Andy Donohue

Social distancing and hand-washing are meant to keep us safe from the coronavirus. But in immigrant detention centers, those measures are impossible.

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Posted inCOVID-19

Quarantine nation

by Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Mwende Hinojosa, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Al Letson, Will Carless, Will Evans, Taki Telonidis, Elizabeth Shogren, Jennifer Gollan, Brett Myers, Lance Williams and Katharine Mieszkowski

Quarantines are supposed to contain the new coronavirus, but are the right people going into isolation, and are federal guidelines strong enough?

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Posted inAccountability

Think globally, report locally

by Byard Duncan, Kevin Sullivan, Najib Aminy, Jen Chien, Emmanuel Martinez, Katharine Mieszkowski, Diana Montaño, Vivi Nguyen, Hannah Young, Robert J. Rosenthal, Andy Donohue, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Matt Thompson, Michael I Schiller, Mwende Hinojosa, Al Letson and Amy Mostafa

A high number of high school sports concussions. A low number of arrests for sexual assault. Reveal’s Reporting Network digs in.

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Posted inAccountability, Inequality, Kept Out, The Trump Era

Homewreckers

by Sarah Mirk, Kevin Sullivan, Deborah George, Katharine Mieszkowski, Aaron Glantz, Ike Sriskandarajah, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Kaitlin Benz, Quinn Lewis, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy and Al Letson

After the housing bust, these men destroyed the American dream of homeownership. Learn how the Homewreckers did it and meet a woman who fought back.

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Posted inThe Cost of Choice

The cost of school choice

by Emily Harris, Najib Aminy, Katharine Mieszkowski, Mwende Hinojosa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Diaz, Sumi Aggarwal, Hannah Young, Al Letson, Andy Donohue, Michael Corey, Diana Montaño and Robert J. Rosenthal

Dominique Martin was thrilled to get a state-funded voucher to send her daughter to private school. We go to Louisiana to investigate the cost of school choice.

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