Episodes

Reveal’s investigations will inspire, infuriate and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers and formerly incarcerated people, fighting to hold the powerful accountable. The New Yorker described Reveal as “a knockout … a pleasure to listen to, even as we seethe.” A winner of multiple Peabody, duPont, Emmy and Murrow awards, Reveal is produced by the nation’s first investigative journalism nonprofit, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX. From unearthing exploitative working conditions to exposing the nation’s racial disparities, there’s always more to the story.

Accountability, Law Enforcement

What cops aren’t learning (rebroadcast)

by Reveal staff May 26, 2018June 30, 2021

We team up with American Public Media to look at why police spend more time learning to shoot their guns than learning how to avoid firing them.

Immigration, Inequality

Across the desert and the sea

by Taki Telonidis, Raphaël Krafft, Laura Starecheski, Jim Briggs and Fernando Arruda May 19, 2018June 30, 2021

On this episode of Reveal, we bring you one reporter’s dispatch from a treacherous migrant rescue operation.

Reveal presents: The View from Room 205

by Kevin Sullivan May 12, 2018July 1, 2021

The story of 30 fourth-graders and one big question: Can education bring kids out of poverty?

Accountability, America's Ring of Fire, Kept Out, The Trump Era

More to the story: Redlining, wildfires and Trump’s mansion

by Deborah George, Brett Myers, Cheryl Devall, Byard Duncan, Katharine Mieszkowski, Andy Donohue, Aaron Glantz, Emmanuel Martinez, Matt Smith, Lance Williams, Patrick Michels, Eric Sagara, Marisa Lagos, Sukey Lewis, Lisa Pickoff-White, Mwende Hinojosa, Jim Briggs and Fernando Arruda May 5, 2018June 30, 2021

There’s always more to the story on Reveal. This week, we look at the impact three shows have made since they first ran.

Institutions of higher earning (rebroadcast)

by Taki Telonidis, Neena Satija, Mwende Hinojosa, Jim Briggs and Fernando Arruda April 28, 2018June 30, 2021

As this week’s episode explains, students face a variety of obstacles, from rising tuition rates to hard-line immigration laws.

Accountability, Hate

Trumping hate

by Cheryl Devall, Will Carless, Michael Montgomery, Amy Walters, Aaron Sankin, Andy Donohue, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda and Mwende Hinojosa April 21, 2018June 30, 2021

Hate speech is nothing new in the United States. What is new is how often people who use it invoke Trump’s name.

Inequality, Insult to Injury, Silicon Valley Diversity, Worked Over

Tesla and beyond: Hidden problems of Silicon Valley

by Byard Duncan, Taki Telonidis, Katharine Mieszkowski, Will Evans, Alyssa Jeong Perry, Sinduja Rangarajan, Ziva Branstetter, Michael Corey, Cristina Kim, Mwende Hinojosa, Jim Briggs and Fernando Arruda April 14, 2018July 1, 2021

We investigate companies that are struggling to solve some old-fashioned problems: Worker safety at Tesla, and diversity at Google and beyond.

Accountability, The Trump Era

Trump’s mystery mansion

by Byard Duncan, Deborah George, Amy Walters, Cheryl Devall, Sukey Lewis, Andy Donohue, Matt Smith, Lance Williams, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda and Mwende Hinojosa April 12, 2018June 30, 2021

Reporters examine the history of a $10 million real estate transaction in Beverly Hills, California.

Accountability, The Trump Era

Checking into Trump’s Washington hotel

by Byard Duncan, Deborah George, Amy Walters, Lance Williams, Matt Smith, Katharine Mieszkowski, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda and Mwende Hinojosa April 7, 2018June 30, 2021

Reveal teamed up with WAMU to dig into one of the largest investigations ever by the Justice Department’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.

Sustainability, The (Un)Scientific Method

Full of lead: How bullets are poisoning eagles

by Byard Duncan, Emily Harris, Jim Briggs and Fernando Arruda April 5, 2018June 30, 2021

Lead – the toxic metal used for years in paint, plumbing, mining and more – still poisons people in all kinds of ways.