Author Archives: Anayansi Diaz-Cortes

Reporter and Producer

Anayansi Diaz-Cortes is a reporter and producer for Reveal. Her work has been featured everywhere from All Things Considered to  Radio Ambulante and  This American Life. She is a recipient of the Overseas Press Club Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation award. She was the creator and lead producer for KCRW’s Sonic Trace, a storytelling project that was part of AIR’s Localore initiative. Previously, she produced for Radio Diaries and has done extensive reporting in both the U.S. and Mexico. She is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.

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Posted inAccountability

Harpooned by Facebook

by Nathan Halverson, Ike Sriskandarajah, Anayansi Diaz-Cortes, Taki Telonidis, D. Victoria Baranetsky, Amanda Pike, David Ritsher, Nikki Frick, Al Letson, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Mwende Hinojosa, Amy Mostafa and Najib Aminy

As the pandemic sends more people online for entertainment, we look at how companies such as Facebook turn information about their users into profits.

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Posted inCOVID-19

Essential workers

by Sarah Mirk, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Al Letson, Mwende Hinojosa, Will Carless, Patrick Michels, Melissa Lewis, Hannah Young, Anayansi Diaz-Cortes, Michael I Schiller, Emily Schwing, Brett Myers, Jen Chien, Taki Telonidis, Sumi Aggarwal, Byard Duncan, Andrew Donohue, Narda Zacchino, Esther Kaplan and Soo Oh

Farmworkers, grocery store clerks and airline employees are on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis. But what’s being done to protect them?

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Posted inInequality, Kids on the Line

Six years separated

by Aura Bogado, Kevin Sullivan, Anayansi Diaz-Cortes, Emily Harris, Andrew Donohue, Brett Myers, Mwende Hinojosa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kaitlin Benz, Katherine Rae Mondo, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy and Al Letson

A 10-year-old girl is separated from her family at the border and enters U.S. custody. Now she’s 17 and still in a shelter. Her family can’t find her.

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