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Dear Revealer,
Did you know that our work is funded by donations from readers like you?
Instead of capitalizing on your attention by selling advertising space on our site or by monetizing our content with paywalls, we let our work and the impact of that work speak for itself.
Consider the impact our work has sparked during the last few months alone:
Police departments investigate online hate group activity
Reporter Will Carless’s investigation into Facebook’s private hate groups identified close to 150 active and retired law enforcement officials engaged online in white nationalist and other hate groups. Since we first released that story, more than 50 police departments around the country have launched internal investigations, and hundreds of local journalists have signed on to our Reveal Reporting Network to cover the police in their own cities.
Case Cleared
After an investigation, led by Reporter Bernice Yeung, into rape cases inappropriately cleared without the proper police investigations, the Texas House of Representatives voted unanimously to create the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Task Force to reform how rapes are tracked, investigated and prosecuted across the state. The lead sponsor of the bipartisan measure said our reporting proved pivotal in convincing Texas lawmakers they needed to act.
Drug rehab faces investigations into labor practices and Medicaid fraud
Following the investigation by Reporters Shoshana Walter and Amy Julia Harris into Cenikor’s exploitation of drug rehabilitation patients in Louisiana and Texas, both states have launched multiple probes into The Cenikor Foundation’s labor practices. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is investigating Cenikor for possible Medicaid fraud. Our reporting has also resulted in some of Cenikor’s largest clients, including Brand Industrial Services, ending their labor contracts.
Right now, journalists, including my colleagues, are under attack – their lives and livelihoods threatened by online hate, political rhetoric and physical threats. It is no coincidence that these assaults come at the very moment when our watchdog role is needed more than ever. If the work were not so powerful, it would not be so feared.
I’m certain you don’t need to be persuaded that with all that is going on today, this is no time for reporters to stand down. In fact, I trust you agree we need to do even more to hold the powerful accountable. Which is exactly what my staff and I are doing – because factual, nonideological stories make a difference and Reveal has the impact to prove it.
Please stand with me as Reveal continues to tell stories that change the world.
Together we are a force for good.
Christa Scharfenberg
CEO
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