Author Archives: Laura Starecheski

Senior Radio Editor

Laura Starecheski is a senior radio editor for Reveal. Their radio work at Reveal has won a national Edward R. Murrow, a duPont-Columbia, and a Peabody, among other awards. Previously, they reported on health for NPR’s science desk and traveled the United States with host Al Letson for the Peabody Award-winning show “State of the Re:Union.” Their Radiolab story “Goat on a Cow” won a silver award for best documentary from the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and SOTRU's “The Hospital Always Wins” won a national Murrow Award. They have been a Rosalynn Carter fellow for mental health journalism and a Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan. Starecheski is based in Philadelphia.

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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 inInequality, Sustainability

Poisoned, ignored and evicted: The perils of living with lead (rebroadcast)

by Emily Harris, Laura Starecheski, Michael Montgomery, Deborah George, Kevin Sullivan, Michael I Schiller, Mwende Hinojosa, Jim Briggs and Fernando Arruda

The toxic water of Flint, Michigan, reminded us that lead is a persistent poison. Reveal investigates the lurking threat of lead from the dust of urba

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