Accountability
Catch a killer with your DNA (rebroadcast)
Genetic genealogy is a powerful crime-solving tool combining DNA science and family tree research. Will it mean a crime-free world or a dark dystopia?
Staff
Biography
Taki Telonidis is the senior supervising editor for Reveal. Previously, he was the media producer for the Western Folklife Center, where he created more than 100 radio features for NPR’s "All Things Considered," "Weekend Edition" and other news magazines. He has produced and directed three public television specials, including "Healing the Warrior’s Heart," a one-hour documentary that explores how the ancient spiritual traditions of our nation’s first warriors, Native Americans, are helping today’s veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. Telonidis also was senior content editor for NPR’s "State of the Re:Union." Before moving to the West, he worked for NPR in Washington, where he was senior producer of "Weekend All Things Considered" between 1994 and 1998. His television and radio work has garnered a George Foster Peabody Award, three Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards and the Overseas Press Club Award for breaking news. Telonidis is based in Salt Lake City.
Articles
Behind the Smiles
Amazon: Behind the Smiles
Shop. Click. The next day, your purchase is on your doorstep. Amazon changed the face of shopping, but at a surprisingly high cost to its workers.
Accountability
Pardon me
The inquiry into President Donald Trump brings memories of Richard Nixon and the pardon that changed history. Also, how the pardons system broke down.
Accountability
Catch a killer with your DNA
Genetic genealogy is a powerful crime-solving tool combining DNA science and family tree research. Will it mean a crime-free world or a dark dystopia?
Scuttling science
Advisory panels slashed – environmental regulations rolled back. How the Trump Administration uses questionable science to justify its policies.
Inequality
Year of return
We reflect on how the legacy of slavery has reverberated through the generations to the present.
Accountability
Harpooned by Facebook
As smart devices become a bigger part of our lives, we look at how Facebook and other companies profit from information about their users.
Sports
Lasting impact
In Oregon, the concussion protocols that were supposed to keep high school athletes safe end up falling short for a star quarterback.
Kids on the Line
In harm’s way
The federal government is quietly expanding its use of “tender age” shelters for migrant kids. We’ll tell you what we know.
The Trump Era
Pardon me
We share the story of a broken pardons system, leaving a backlog of 13,000 applications, and a pardon attorney’s office that the White House ignores.