Investigative Reporter for APM Reports. Contributor to NPR News and Marketplace. Former reporter at MPR News. DM for signal
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28 Jul 2022
GS Labs spread across the country with the promise of reliable, convenient Covid testing. @apmreports finds that the company has at times delivered inaccurate results, faced backlogs, charged high prices, and pushed customers into unnecessary tests. apmreports.org/story/2022/07…
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‘An open secret’: New records reveal officials failed to act on fraud warnings startribune.com/an-open-secr…
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A review of public records by the Star Tribune found a sharp increase in threats to elected officials even before Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed last June. There were death threats, bomb scares, intimidation & warnings of torture.
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‘No humanity’: Detainees describe conditions inside Whipple Federal Building startribune.com/no-humanity-…
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20 Nov 2025
NEW: It was great working on this investigation with our good friends at the @strib, including @AndrewMannix, @LeilaNavidi, @tomscheck and @EWieffering. Plus so many others who made this story read and look great!
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20 Nov 2025
The Minnesota Star Tribune’s Andy Mannix and ProPublica’s Jessica Lussenhop collaborated on an investigation into a church community in Duluth. They found that church leaders enabled a child abuser by telling his victims to forgive and forget.
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30 Sep 2025
How The Minnesota Star Tribune bolstered its shoe-leather reporting by using ChatGPT to analyze handwritten Faux Cyrillic journal entries of a mass shooter (@tomscheck / Poynter)
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1 Nov 2024
This is a big deal. Congrats to @ehanford and the Sold a Story team!
1 Nov 2024
Do you remember how you were taught to read?
On our new Series Essential pick, @ehanford explores the schools that bought into a flawed method to teach reading, the publishers who made millions off it & the laws enacted based on this groundbreaking investigation.
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8 Aug 2024
Come work with @ehanford and me on our next "Sold a Story" investigation. We're looking for a remote, yearlong fellow to start this fall. DM me if you're thinking of applying. recruiting2.ultipro.com/AME1…
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23 Jul 2024
The @InTheDarkTNY team has been investigating this story for four years. New Yorker subscribers can hear Eps 1 and 2 today. newyorker.com/season-3
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22 Jun 2024
Homeowners desperate for cash turned to these "sale-leaseback" deals. My investigation for @NPR found it cost some people tens of thousands. Some were even evicted from homes they used to own.
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14 Jun 2024
We spent years investigation the @SLMPD's Homicide Unit. What did we learn? Here are 5 takeaways.
The final in this series (for now) by @stlpublicradio's @rlippman, and @apmreports' @jenpenned and @tomscheck.
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7 Jun 2024
We were lucky to work with @rlippmann @brianmmunoz @stlpublicradio and @MarshallProj on this project. Please read the thread and the stories —->
7 Jun 2024
Today marks the final story in “Unsolved” - an investigation by @stlpublicradio, @apmreports and @TheMarshallProject. (1/13)
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7 Jun 2024
Thousands of family members and friends wait for St. Louis police to solve the killing of their loved ones. Read and listen to their stories, and see the amazing photography. W @rlippmann @brianmmunoz @ShahlaFarzan
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7 Jun 2024
The final word in this week’s @stlpublicradio, @apmreports, and @marshallproj investigation into the @SLMPD goes to the St. Louisans who want justice for their killed relatives. /7
✍️/📸: myself, @shahlafarzan, @rlippmann, @tomscheck and @erjlee
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3 Jun 2024
INVESTIGATION: Why 1,000 homicides in St. Louis remain unsolved | @stlpublicradio @MarshallProj @apmreports
Police have struggled to solve killings due to staffing shortages, shoddy detective work and lack of community trust.
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3 Jun 2024
Roughly 1,900 homicides have been committed in St. Louis since 2014.
More than 1,000 remain unsolved.
Police solved nearly two-thirds cases involving White victims.
But for killings of Black victims, they solved fewer than half.
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5 Jun 2024
Of the roughly 1,900 homicides committed in St. Louis from 2014 through 2023, more than 1,000 remain unsolved, reports @MarshallProj, @apmreports & @stlpublicradio. Here's why. themarshallproject.org/2024/…
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6 Jun 2024
St. Louis' homicide unit also had to juggle “chronic understaffing,” budget problems and a ballooning backlog of DNA samples.
The latest in our "Unsolved" investigation series with @apmreports & @MarshallProj: 2/2 stlpr.org/law-order/2024-06-…
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6 Jun 2024
This important investigative series from @stlpublicradio's @rlippmann, in collaboration with @apmreports @MarshallProj explores how and why police in St. Louis have struggled to solve killings, leaving thousands of family members without answers.
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6 Jun 2024
As the number of killings increased in St. Louis, the homicide unit struggled with tight budgets, unrelenting overtime, turnover in key positions, an exodus of crime lab technicians and a ballooning backlog of DNA samples.
Our latest in the series…
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