Selected Fact-Checking

Audio

Blindspot, Season 3: The Plague in the Shadows (WNYC) // sole fact-checker on 7-episode series on the early days of AIDS

Trillion Dollar Shot (Wall Street Journal/Gimlet Media) // fact-checker on four-episode series on the business of Ozempic

Motherboard Money (VICE)// fact-checker on VICE’s podcast about money and the internet

Print

Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation. We mapped them all. (Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco and Keerti Gopal, Grist/Inside Climate News/WBEZ)

How 3 years of war have ravaged Ukraine’s forests — and the people who depend on them (Chad Small, Grist)

The Great Pretender (Noah Lanard, Mother Jones)

The Martuscello Dynasty: Power and Patronage in New York Prisons (Chris Gelardi, New York Focus)

Cradle and All: The Devastating Cost of Utah’s Thriving Adoption Industry (Julia Lurie, Mother Jones)

“He’s An Agent. No One Will Believe Me Over Him.” (Erin Siegel McIntyre, Mother Jones)

Why Ballot Measures Are Democracy’s Last Line of Defense (Ari Berman, Mother Jones)

The Search for Special Case-Baby 1 (Lizzy Ratner, The Nation)

The Incredible Oblivion of Judge Marvin Isgur (Dakin Campbell, Business Insider)

Big Tech’s Urban Hero (Hugh Langley and Adam Rogers, Business Insider)

Misreading Octavia Butler (Andrea Long Chu, New York Magazine)

The Velveteen Rabbit Was Always More Than A Children’s Book (Andrea Long Chu, New York Magazine)

How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Convince West Africans Crypto Was Their Future? (Reeves Wiedeman, New York Magazine)

Dirty Soap (Emilia Petrarca, New York Magazine)

Nurses are Fighting Back – but the Nightmare Continues (Bryce Covert, The Nation)

Grist 50 (Grist, 2023) // sole researcher for Grist’s 2023 list of 50 climate leaders to watch.