David Rodriguez is a community engagement producer for Reveal. Before joining Reveal, Rodriguez's work as an engagement assistant producer at Southern California Public Radio helped develop a report on how newsrooms can improve their reporting on the 2020 Census, which won the 2019 Gather Award in Engaged Journalism.
Rodriguez has reported stories on immigration at the Investigative Reporting Workshop in American University. He is an alum of NPR's Next Generation Radio and San Francisco State University. He previously completed internships with KPCC's podcast team, where he helped produce The Big One: Your Survival Guide, and with Reveal, where he created a database tracking how much money and time the United States government has spent buying land along the U.S.-Mexico border. He is based in Los Angeles.
In Mexico, the investigation of the attack on students leaves key questions unanswered, but a DEA agent thousands of miles away thinks he knows why they were ambushed.
From the beginning, families questioned the official story in the disappearance of 43 Mexican students. Now there’s a new search for the truth.
As homelessness rises, unhoused people often get entangled in a criminal justice cycle that leads back to the streets – or worse.
Billions of dollars were supposed to help small businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program. But the money was marred by racial inequity.
Medical schools often provide insufficient training around death and dying. With the COVID-19 pandemic creating great need, this guide is meant to be a resource for physicians.
They describe closing cases after only one unsuccessful door knock and using proxy sources such as leases to tally household occupants.
Workers say poor training, shifting deadlines and clunky technology produced chaos. Now, a lawsuit and government reports are echoing their claims.
From problems with vote-by-mail systems to voter suppression, we examine the potential for chaos in the 2020 elections.
If you’re a census worker interested in sharing your experience, we want to hear from you.
Census field workers say faulty technology is hampering the decennial count.
