Soo Oh

Enterprise Editor, Data

Soo Oh is the enterprise editor for data at Reveal. She has previously reported data stories, coded interactive visuals and built internal tools at the Wall Street Journal, Vox.com, the Los Angeles Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2018, she was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, where she researched how to better manage and support journalists with technical skills. Oh is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.

soh@revealnews.org

soh@revealnews.org

A trump supporter wearing a gas mask and waving an american flag stands in an unruly crowd outside the Capitol building.

Hate

The evolution of all-American terrorism

by Kevin Sullivan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Brett Myers, Brett Simpson, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Jen Chien, Priska Neely, Stan Alcorn, David Neiwert, Esther Kaplan, Taki Telonidis, Soo Oh and Al Letson January 16, 2021July 1, 2021

Long before the attempted coup by his supporters, Trump fanned the flames of white supremacy and domestic terrorism.

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An illustration in a red and yellow tones shows a silhouette of a girl surrounded by hands that try to grab her, swirling papers, and a fence. In the background, a plane flies.

Immigration, The Disappeared

An adolescence, seized

by Najib Aminy, Kevin Sullivan, Aura Bogado, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Melissa Lewis, Al Letson, Soo Oh, Andy Donohue, Esther Kaplan and Brett Simpson October 17, 2020July 1, 2021

A 10-year-old Honduran girl came to the United States seeking asylum. Instead, she was detained – away from her family – for nearly seven years.

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Behind the Smiles

How Amazon hid its safety crisis 

by Will Evans, Rachel de Leon, Katharine Mieszkowski, Soo Oh, Andy Donohue, Esther Kaplan, Matt Thompson and Nikki Frick September 29, 2020June 30, 2021

Robots. Prime Day. Holiday peak. Internal records show Amazon has deceived the public on rising injury rates among its warehouse workers.

Behind the Smiles

What are injury rates like at Amazon warehouses?

by Mohamed Al Elew and Soo Oh September 29, 2020June 30, 2021

Look up injury rates at the Amazon warehouse that ships your package, along with more than 150 other warehouses across the country.

A collage illustration shows a person against an orange background. There arm is in a sling made from a material that resembles an altered Amazon package.

Behind 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, Andy Donohue, Esther Kaplan, Soo Oh, Rachel de Leon, Melissa Lewis and Chris Harland-Dunaway September 26, 2020July 1, 2021

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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COVID-19, Health Care, Prisons

COVID-19 in confinement

by Elizabeth Shogren, Michael Montgomery, Taki Telonidis, Laura Starecheski, Brett Myers, Soo Oh, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Kevin Sullivan, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy and Al Letson September 19, 2020July 1, 2021

Self-isolation may protect us from COVID-19, but what if you’re forced to live with strangers? This week, we look at nursing homes and prisons.

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The sun sets on a memorial left outside an El Paso Walmart. Flowers and balloons crowd around a sign that says "El Paso Strong." A Mexican flag and US flag fly behind the memorial.

Hate

Domestic terror in the age of Trump

by David Neiwert, Stan Alcorn and Soo Oh July 9, 2020June 30, 2021

A new database of domestic terror incidents shows attacks by far-right extremists have become far more lethal since Donald Trump became president.

DOWNTOWN, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES - 2017/08/12: Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other alt-right factions scuffled with counter-demonstrators near Emancipation Park (Formerly "Lee Park") in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. After fighting between factions escalated, Virginia State Police ordered the evacuation by all parties and cancellation of the "Unite The Right" rally scheduled to take place in the park.

Accountability, Guns, The Hate Report

The evolution of all-American terrorism

by Kevin Sullivan, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Mwende Hinojosa, Jen Chien, Taki Telonidis, Stan Alcorn, Priska Neely, Esther Kaplan, Soo Oh and Nikki Frick June 27, 2020July 1, 2021

With right-wing extremist attacks on the rise, Reveal teams up with Type Investigations to track domestic terror during the Trump presidency.

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A collage in purple and green hues shows the states of California and Florida, with photos of the governors of the two states.

How a national health crisis fell on the backs of local leaders

by Lance Williams, Laura C. Morel, Marisa Lagos, Caitie Switalski, Melissa Lewis, Emily Harris, Soo Oh and Jen Chien June 18, 2020June 30, 2021

With a leadership vacuum in Washington, the San Francisco Bay Area’s shelter-in-place orders led the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

A collage of an American flag and painted coronavirus cells is in the background. In the foreground is text reading Divided States of Pandemic

Divided states of the pandemic

by Kevin Sullivan, Najib Aminy, Mwende Hinojosa, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Amy Mostafa, Al Letson, Jen Chien, Emily Harris, Lance Williams, Laura C. Morel, Esther Kaplan, Soo Oh and Melissa Lewis June 13, 2020December 15, 2021

The federal government’s failure to manage the pandemic shifted the burden to local officials. We look at state responses in California and Florida.

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