Will Carless

Reporter

Will Carless was a correspondent for Reveal covering extremism. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in Asia and South America. Prior to joining Reveal, he was a senior correspondent for Public Radio International’s Global Post team based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Before that, Will spent eight years at the Voice of San Diego, where he worked as an investigative reporter and head of investigations. During his tenure in San Diego, Will was awarded several prizes, including a national award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has been a finalist for the Livingston Awards for young journalists twice in the last five years. He surfs, spends time with his family, travels to silly places and pretends he’s writing a novel.

wcarless@revealnews.org

wcarless@revealnews.org

An illustration depicts a ballot on fire, which morphs into a building. A group of white men with guns stand outside the burning building.

Remembering a White supremacist coup

by Kevin Sullivan, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Katharine Mieszkowski, Will Carless, Taki Telonidis, Esther Kaplan, Brett Simpson and Al Letson October 24, 2020July 1, 2021

Reveal looks back to a nearly forgotten 1898 election in North Carolina. A coup d’etat gave birth to much of the structural racism that exists today.

Two people stand near signs that read, “Vote by Mail Ballot Drop Off.”

John Johnson isn’t dead: How claims of voter fraud in Florida fell apart

by Will Carless October 22, 2020June 30, 2021

The Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative nonprofit, has a long history of claiming voter fraud but getting its facts wrong.

‘We’ve all started calling it “the Senseless” ’

by Will Carless and David Rodriguez September 15, 2020June 30, 2021

Census field workers say faulty technology is hampering the decennial count.

An illustration of a Zoom call on a computer screen shows several school-age kids, three of whom are glitching and not visible.

Accountability, COVID-19, U.S. Education

How the US’ massive failure to close the digital divide got exposed by coronavirus

by Will Carless June 22, 2020June 30, 2021

Three out of four Americans without reliable high-speed internet access live in urban areas. Most haven’t connected because they can’t afford it.

A purple painting evoking coronavirus cells is behind text reading HOME SCHOOL

Home school

by Kevin Sullivan, Amy Mostafa, Mwende Hinojosa, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Will Carless, Najib Aminy, Al Letson, Patrick Michels, Anayansi Diaz-Cortes, Michael I Schiller, Esther Kaplan and Brett Myers May 30, 2020July 1, 2021

Online learning works only if you can get online. We explore why tens of thousands of families are caught on the wrong side of the digital divide.

Nathan Tetreault, wearing a red uniform t-shirt and baseball cap, walks in the parking lot of a Winn-Dixie grocery store

Dozens of grocery store workers have died. Here’s what workers say their employers did wrong.

by Will Carless and Patrick Michels April 15, 2020June 30, 2021

Policies incentivized sick and vulnerable workers to report for duty. Masks and gloves were forbidden. Confusion reigned within chains.

Larger than life size cutout billboards portray farm workers standing at the edge of a farm field.

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, Andy Donohue, Narda Zacchino, Esther Kaplan and Soo Oh April 4, 2020July 1, 2021

Farmworkers, grocery store clerks and airline employees are on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis. But what’s being done to protect them?

A cardboard sign says "stay at home" outside a house

Quarantine nation

by Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Mwende Hinojosa, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Al Letson, Will Carless, Will Evans, Taki Telonidis, Elizabeth Shogren, Jennifer Gollan, Brett Myers, Lance Williams and Katharine Mieszkowski March 28, 2020July 1, 2021

Quarantines are supposed to contain the new coronavirus, but are the right people going into isolation, and are federal guidelines strong enough?

Governor Jerry Brown looking concerned and speaking at a podium.

Accountability, COVID-19

California created a massive medical reserve – with acute care beds, ventilators and N95 masks — then let it collapse

by Lance Williams, Will Evans and Will Carless March 27, 2020June 30, 2021

Mobile acute care hospitals, ventilators and N95 respirators were stocked, but state leaders refused to allocate funds to maintain them.

A person fills out the Census on a tablet.

Census launches online after last-minute software switch

by Will Carless March 11, 2020June 30, 2021

The Government Accountability Office says the move entails new risks because the backup system was not tested extensively.