Author Archives: Ike Sriskandarajah

Senior Reporter and Producer

Ike Sriskandarajah is a senior reporter, producer, and fill-in host for Reveal. He has worked on projects that have won an Emmy, two medals from Investigative Reporters and Editors, and awards from Third Coast, the Education Writers Association, and the New York Associated Press Association. He was a narrative audio producer at The New York Times, making investigative episodes for "The Daily." Sriskandarajah is from Wisconsin and reports from New York City.

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Posted inAmerican Rehab

American Rehab Chapter 2: Miracle on the Beach

by Shoshana Walter, Laura Starecheski, Ike Sriskandarajah, Brett Myers, Kevin Sullivan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Al Letson, Amy Julia Harris, Katharine Mieszkowski, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Matt Thompson, Esther Kaplan, Amanda Pike and Claire Mullen

Reveal’s American Rehab exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid shadow workforce.

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Posted inAmerican Rehab

American Rehab Chapter 1: A Desperate Call

by Shoshana Walter, Laura Starecheski, Ike Sriskandarajah, Brett Myers, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Katharine Mieszkowski, Amy Julia Harris, Al Letson, Kevin Sullivan, Esther Kaplan, Amanda Pike, Narda Zacchino, Najib Aminy and Amy Mostafa

Penny Rawlings is relieved to finally get her brother into rehab at a place called Cenikor. She doesn’t realize that getting him out of treatment is going to be the bigger problem.

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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 inAccountability, Inequality, Kept Out, The Trump Era

Homewreckers

by Sarah Mirk, Kevin Sullivan, Deborah George, Katharine Mieszkowski, Aaron Glantz, Ike Sriskandarajah, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Kaitlin Benz, Quinn Lewis, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy and Al Letson

After the housing bust, these men destroyed the American dream of homeownership. Learn how the Homewreckers did it and meet a woman who fought back.

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