French radio reporter Raphael Krafft had never intervened in the lives of the people he covered until 2015, when he was reporting on the refugee crisis in France.
Laura Starecheski
Senior Radio Editor
Laura Starecheski is a former 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.
Battle over LGBT rights ends in Jacksonville, Florida
The City Council has passed an amendment that will protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from being fired or denied housing because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Split down the middle
As Donald Trump assumes leadership of a divided nation, Reveal heads to Jacksonville, Florida, one of the most divided cities in America.
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If you can’t afford a lawyer
The chief public defender in New Orleans says his office doesn’t have enough money or time to do a good job representing poor people accused of crimes. So he’s refusing some serious cases. His goal? To break the system in order to fix it.
The man who saw Donald Trump’s victory coming
Steve Walls is a 38-year-old electrician in Philadelphia. He never was really into politics – until 2016. The wave of energy around Donald Trump’s campaign swept him up.
What went wrong – and then right – for the Wright family
Every time Ginger and Jim Wright visited their son Derek, who has autism, at Lakeview NeuroRehabilitation Center in New Hampshire, he would repeat, over and over, “No Lakeview. No Lakeview.”
Corruption runs in the family at American neurorehab centers
An investigation with New Hampshire Public Radio finds a history of mistreatment and abuse at a neurorehabilitation center and uncovers its connections to a network of similar facilities across the country – and to owners who have evaded accountability for 40 years.
Toxic tech in America
In 1975, when she was 18, Yvette Flores got a job assembling parts for some of the first supermarket checkout scanners. It took 30 years before she connected her daily chemical exposure at the Silicon Valley manufacturing plant to her son’s severe disabilities.