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Ashley Cleek
Producer
Ashley Cleek is a producer for Reveal. She helped develop and launch VICE News’ flagship podcast, VICE News Reports. As a reporter, she's worked with This American Life, VICE, NPR and Latino USA. Her work has won a national Edward R. Murrow Award, a Gracie Award, an International Documentary Association Award and a Third Coast award, and she was a 2020 Livingston Award finalist. She has reported stories across the American South, Turkey, Russia and India. Cleek is based in New York.
A Baby Adopted, A Family Divided
A video leaks of a wealthy politician describing how he adopted a Native child, leading to outrage from the child’s biological family and members of her tribe.
The Landlord Gutting America’s Hospitals
A real estate company buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone bankrupt.
The Many Contradictions of a Trump Victory
From Democrats who wouldn’t vote for Kamala Harris to families of January 6ers fighting for their release, we meet the people behind Donald Trump’s red wave.
Red, Black, and Blue
Mother Jones video correspondent Garrison Hayes does a deep dive into the motivations of Black Trump supporters.
Black in the Sunshine State
Host Al Letson goes home to Jacksonville to take stock of changes that have happened in the past few years and what they mean for Black Floridians.
A Baby Adopted, A Family Divided
A video leaks of a wealthy politician describing how he adopted a Native child, leading to outrage from the child’s biological family and members of her tribe.
Blue State Barriers and the Messy Map of Abortion Access
In New Mexico, when the only hospital in a vast rural county turns Catholic, reproductive health care is suddenly on the line.
Black in the Sunshine State
Host Al Letson goes home to Jacksonville to take stock of changes that have happened in the past few years and what they mean for Black Floridians.
