We're 🎉 thrilled 🎉 to announce that our serialized podcast, American Rehab, was named the winner of the national @RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Award for best podcast in the network radio category! revealnews.org/press/american…
The series traces a decades-long history of unpaid labor in drug rehabs – known as “work therapy” – popularized by a swinging cult in the 1950s that forced vasectomies and tried to kill a lawyer by rattlesnake.
Like so many of our big projects, this was a major team effort, originally conceived as a series by @Starecheski. @shoeshine was lead reporter and producer, @RadioIke was a reporter and series producer, and @amyjharris was a contributing reporter. It was edited by @brettmyers.
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1/ On this week's episode, we take you inside government-funded shelters for migrant children, where staff are calling police for minor incidents like fights or damaged property.
3/ Among the children was a 16-year-old boy from Honduras. Staff at a @SouthwestKey shelter called 911 to report that he'd broken some bins and bed frames.
Bodycam video from a @BexarCoSheriff deputy shows the boy was tased for 35 seconds.
1/⚡️NEW⚡️ #COVID19 vaccines do not contain microchips! Yet many American adults think it may be true thanks to the rapid spread of disinformation. In our latest investigation with @verge, @RadioIke traces the spread of the viral conspiracy theory🧵revealnews.org/article/where-…
2/ The microchip conspiracy theory first appeared last year after @BillGates predicted in a @reddit AMA chat that one day we would all carry a digital passport for our health records.
3/ Bill Gates didn't actually suggest a microchip, however, but some kind of e-vaccine card.
Then a Swedish website distorted Gates' comment. The headline read: “Bill Gates will use microchip implants to fight coronavirus.”
This week on @reveal, we talk about how business owners in majority White areas got approved for Paycheck Protection Program loans at much higher rates than those in majority Black, Latinx and Asian areas. revealnews.org/article/rampan…
When #COVID19 shut down Annie Graham's clothing stores in Inglewood, she applied for a repayable government loan for small businesses during emergencies, but was denied based on her credit record. (📸by @jamesbernalfoto)
She also applied for a forgivable #ppploan, but didn’t get approved because a bank mistakenly told her she had to prove she had staff on payroll. But she didn’t have staff. Many small businesses never get big enough to afford having staff.
1/ The Paycheck Protection Program, one of the largest bailouts since the Great Depression, promised to help small businesses.
Yet our analysis of more than 5 million #ppploans found widespread racial disparities in where those loans were given out. revealnews.org/article/rampan…
2/ The disparities were visible across the nation.
We found that in almost every metro area with a population of 1 million or more, the rate of lending to majority White areas was higher than the rates for majority Latinx, Black or Asian areas. revealnews.org/article/which-…
3/ Businesses in majority White areas received loans at about twice the rate as those in majority Latinx areas in multiple major metro areas including New York, Dallas, Phoenix, San Francisco, San Diego and Las Vegas.
We teamed up with our colleagues at @apmreports and @AP this week to tell the story of Myon Burrell, who was just 16 when he was charged with fatally shooting an 11-year-old girl in Minneapolis in 2002.
2/ 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards was sitting at the dining room table at her home in Minneapolis doing homework when a bullet pierced the wall and struck her in the heart.
Authorities believed the stray bullet was intended for a rival gang member. (📷by @johnminchillo)
3/ There was immense pressure to solve the case, and within days Minneapolis police rounded up their suspects: 16-year-old Myon Burrell, and two men in their early 20s: Ike Tyson and Hans Williams.
The top prosecutor at the time? Amy Klobuchar, who ran for president in 2019.
1/ A few days ago, the pop star Bad Bunny (@sanbenito) sent out an urgent tweet about upcoming concert dates. “THE TICKETS FOR MY TOUR ARE NOT AVAILABLE YET!!” he wrote in Spanish.
There’s a valuable lesson here about how fans end up feeling duped buying tickets.