Author Archives: Melissa Lewis

Data Reporter

Melissa Lewis is a data reporter for Reveal. Prior to joining Reveal, she was a data editor at The Oregonian, a data engineer at Simple and a data analyst at Periscopic. She is an organizer for the Portland chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. Lewis is based in Oregon.

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Posted inBehind the Smiles

Catching Amazon in a lie

by Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Al Letson, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Will Evans, Jennifer Gollan, Katharine Mieszkowski, Taki Telonidis, Michael Montgomery, Andrew Donohue, Esther Kaplan, Soo Oh, Rachel de Leon, Melissa Lewis and Chris Harland-Dunaway

Amazon says its warehouses are safe for workers. But the numbers reveal that workers are getting hurt much more often than the company claims.

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Posted inCOVID-19

Pandemic, protests and profits

by Al Letson, Taki Telonidis, Kevin Sullivan, Katharine Mieszkowski, Mwende Hinojosa, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Byard Duncan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Will Evans, Melissa Lewis, Hannah Young, David Rodriguez, Andrew Donohue and Chris Harland-Dunaway

Protesters around the country are pushing to loosen stay-at-home orders. Meanwhile, some Amazon workers say not enough is being done to protect them.

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Posted inCOVID-19

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, Andrew Donohue, Narda Zacchino, Esther Kaplan and Soo Oh

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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