Emily Schwing

Reporter

Emily Schwing is a reporter for Reveal. She reported on how the Jesuit order of the Catholic Church used Native American communities and Alaska Native villages to hide abusive priests for decades, and she tracked those priests to a retirement home on Gonzaga University’s campus. The story won a Best of the West award and PRNDI award and made the final round of judging in the 2019 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Previously, Schwing covered climate change, public land management and indigenous issues as a correspondent at the Northwest News Network. Before that, she spent more than a decade chasing sled dog teams and tracking down sources in some of the most remote corners of Alaska. Schwing is based in Alaska.

eschwing@revealnews.org

eschwing@revealnews.org

Drilling Down on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change

by Elizabeth Shogren, Jonathan Jones, Emily Schwing, Taki Telonidis, Brett Meyers, Jim Briggs, Steven Rascón, Fernando Arruda, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Al Letson, Katharine Mieszkowski, D. Victoria Baranetsky and Nikki Frick January 7, 2023January 23, 2023

The U.S. has promised to move away from fossil fuels, but the natural gas industry is booming.

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An illustration shows a gray sky above a white Catholic church in the middle of an Alaskan landscape, colored with purple and green. A priest stands outside the door and watches the scene in front of him, as two people pull in a net of fish from the ocean.

Accountability, Religion

Unrepentant

by Kevin Sullivan, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Al Letson, Taki Telonidis, Katharine Mieszkowski, Emily Schwing and Claire Mullen June 20, 2020July 1, 2021

Despite revelations of clergy sex abuse and promises of transparency, a prominent Jesuit university does little to punish priests who cross the line.

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Larger than life size cutout billboards portray farm workers standing at the edge of a farm field.

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, Andy Donohue, Narda Zacchino, Esther Kaplan and Soo Oh April 4, 2020July 1, 2021

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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Nancy Pelosi, wearing a blue suit, sits at a table signing a bill. A sign reading "families first" is on the table. A group of officials surrounding her applauds.

How OSHA has failed to protect America’s workers from COVID-19

by Emily Schwing April 4, 2020June 30, 2021

Efforts to create a federal rule to protect workers from infectious diseases have dragged on for decades.

Sustainability, The (Un)Scientific Method

To the ends of the Earth

by Emily Schwing, Brett Myers, Mwende Hinojosa, Najib Aminy, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda and Kaitlin Benz June 1, 2019June 30, 2021

We travel the globe, from bottom to top, to confront the growing threats from climate change.

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2 former Jesuit officials resign from Gonzaga after revelations about abusive priests on campus

by Emily Schwing, Michael Corey and Aaron Sankin December 21, 2018January 3, 2019

Both previously held leadership roles in the Jesuits’ Oregon Province while it sent Jesuits accused of sexual abuse to live in a home on campus.

Accountability, Religion

Gonzaga University president responds to investigation into abusive priests

by Emily Schwing and Michael Corey December 19, 2018December 19, 2018

In a written statement, Gonzaga University President Thayne McCulloh said he knew Jesuit priests accused of sexual abuse were living on campus.

These priests abused in Native villages for years. They retired on Gonzaga’s campus

by Emily Schwing, Aaron Sankin and Michael Corey December 17, 2018June 30, 2021

Gonzaga University served as a retirement repository for Jesuit priests accused of sexual abuse in Alaska Native villages and on Indian reservations.

Sins of the fathers

by Michael Corey, Katharine Mieszkowski, Emily Schwing, Taki Telonidis, Najib Aminy, Kaitlin Benz, Jim Briggs and Fernando Arruda December 14, 2018July 1, 2021

In Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, the Catholic Church had a problem with Jesuit priests sexually abusing kids. James Poole was a repeat offender.

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