Stan Alcorn

Senior Reporter and Producer

Stan Alcorn is a former senior reporter and producer for Reveal. His radio work at Reveal has won awards including a Peabody Award, several Online Journalism Awards, an NABJ Salute to Excellence Award, and a Best of the West Award, as well as making him a finalist for a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He previously was a reporter for Marketplace, covering business and economic news – from debit card fees levied on the formerly incarcerated to the economic impact of Beyoncé's hair. He has helped launch new shows at Marketplace, Slate, and WNYC; contributed research to books by journalists at Time and CNBC; and reported for outlets including NPR, PRI's The World, 99% Invisible, WNYC, FiveThirtyEight, Fast Company, High Country News, Narratively, and Digg.

salcorn@revealnews.org

salcorn@revealnews.org

An illustration shows a woman with a facemask reading 2020 holding up her ballot. Behind her, in a blue and purple swirl of colors, are ballots, voters, and other figures.

United, we’re not

by Kevin Sullivan, Najib Aminy, Laura Starecheski, Brett Simpson, Brett Myers, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Emily Harris, Amy Mostafa, Al Letson, Taki Telonidis, Michael Montgomery, Matt Thompson, Jen Chien, Patrick Michels, Laura C. Morel, Stan Alcorn, Jennifer Gollan, Katharine Mieszkowski, Aura Bogado, Elizabeth Shogren, Andy Donohue, Esther Kaplan, Sumi Aggarwal and Claire Mullen November 14, 2020July 1, 2021

Where does America go from here? We talk with an asylum-seeking family, Georgia women on abortion and West Virginians on the impact of Black Lives Matter.

A red and black illustration shows protester reflected in the visor of a police officer's riot gear helmet

Criminal Justice, First Amendment

Stopping a movement

by Anjali Kamat, Kevin Sullivan, Amy Mostafa, Brett Simpson, Najib Aminy, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Stan Alcorn and Patrick Michels October 31, 2020July 1, 2021

Millions of Americans have protested racism and police brutality. The federal government cracked down, filing charges against protesters in 31 states.

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Hate

Founder of New Mexico’s new militia was a neo-Nazi skinhead

by Stan Alcorn August 21, 2020June 30, 2021

Facebook took down hundreds of pages Wednesday in a crackdown on “movements and organizations tied to violence.” Among them was a right-wing militia.

Accountability, Hate

Monumental lies

by Stan Alcorn, Jen Chien, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Al Letson and Mwende Hinojosa August 15, 2020July 1, 2021

Civil War-era myths are kept alive at Confederate monuments with stories of “benevolent slave owners” and enslaved people “contented with their lot.”

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.

A vivid red and yellow painting swirls colors with shapes evoking Coronavirus cells. Text in the front reads Detained and Exposed.

COVID-19, Kids on the Line

Detained and exposed

by Sarah Mirk, Kevin Sullivan, Al Letson, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Mwende Hinojosa, Laura C. Morel, Aura Bogado, Emily Harris, Stan Alcorn, Priska Neely, Katharine Mieszkowski, Brett Myers, Taki Telonidis, Jen Chien and Andy Donohue April 11, 2020July 1, 2021

Social distancing and hand-washing are meant to keep us safe from the coronavirus. But in immigrant detention centers, those measures are impossible.

The lost homes of Detroit

by Kevin Sullivan, Jen Chien, Stan Alcorn, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Al Letson, Emmanuel Martinez and Deborah George January 11, 2020June 30, 2021

Hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes should never have been charged, but Detroiters still had to pay or risk losing their homes.

Accountability, Criminal Justice

The secret list of convicted cops

by Deborah George, Stan Alcorn, Mwende Hinojosa, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Najib Aminy, Claire Mullen and Amy Mostafa November 9, 2019June 30, 2021

When cops misbehave, why does it stay secret? We hear from a reporter threatened with prosecution and interview a U.S. police association leader.

The right to boycott

by Stan Alcorn, Jen Chien, Mwende Hinojosa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kaitlin Benz and Al Letson September 7, 2019June 30, 2021

We look at where an Israel boycott clause in employment contracts comes from and weigh it against the First Amendment right to free speech.