Staff
Biography
Adithya Sambamurthy is a video producer for Reveal, with a background in photojournalism and documentary film. He joined Reveal after working as a staff photographer for The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit journalism organization that merged with The Center for Investigative Reporting in 2012. Sambamurthy previously worked on documentaries for National Geographic, PBS FRONTLINE/World and numerous independent productions. He also worked as a photojournalist at the San Jose Mercury News in California; The News-Press of Fort Myers, Florida; and the St. Petersburg (now Tampa Bay) Times. Since joining Reveal, he has produced, shot and edited stories for the website, as well as for a number of Reveal's broadcast and online partners, including the PBS NewsHour, KQED public television and ABC News. Sambamurthy has been nominated for a national Emmy Award, shared in a George Foster Peabody Award and received commendations from the Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Articles
Feral cat advocacy group objects to Reveal’s coverage
A national advocacy organization has criticized our recent story on the shortfalls of controlling the nation’s feral cat population through a method called trap-neuter-return.
Environment
Who let the cats out?
In this story produced with PBS NewsHour, we examine what the cat fight over feral felines is all about.
Environment
What do you do when America’s favorite pet – the cat – goes feral?
Cats are America’s most popular pet, with nearly 80 million in our homes today. But for every pet cat curling up in our laps, there’s another stray or feral cat roaming our landscape.
Environment
A sneak peek at our upcoming documentary about feral cats
Check out our sneak peek at “Catfight,” an in-progress documentary coming out later this year. Cat lovers and wildlife conservationists clash over how to manage the stray and feral cats roaming alleyways, parks and woodlands. Who will prevail?
Criminal Justice
Are Jehovah’s Witnesses Covering up Child Abuse?
The Jehovah’s Witnesses maintain that the First Amendment protects their right to set their own policies, even in cases of child abuse.
Immigration
Job brokers steal wages, entrap Indian tech workers in US
Labor brokers providing Indian high-tech workers to American companies are gaming a professional visa program, creating a shadow world that can turn a worker’s dream of self-betterment into a financial nightmare.
Education
Video: Profiting from the GI Bill
The post-World War II GI Bill helped veterans live the American Dream. But a new GI Bill designed to help those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan is coming under fire. The Center for Investigative Reporting found more than $600 million dollars in GI bill money had gone to hundreds of for-profit schools in California with
Opiates
Video: Drugging America’s Veterans
When it comes to painkillers, the United States consumes 80 percent of the world’s supply, according to American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. More Americans now die from painkillers than from heroin and cocaine combined according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among military veterans, the problem of painkiller abuse is especially striking.
Video: Indefinite Isolation
Inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in Northern California are on a hunger strike, protesting conditions in the prison's security housing units, where hundreds of men are held in isolation, in some cases for decades. The strikers are seeking limits on isolation and an easing of restrictions. California corrections officials say the units are humane,