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Isaiah Murtaugh

Isaiah Murtaugh

Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellow Isaiah Murtaugh is an audio and print reporter. He recently earned a master's degree in specialized journalism at the University of Southern California, then spent a short spell writing obituaries for COVID-19 victims as a Los Angeles Times intern before joining GroundTruth as a reporting fellow. He calls Los Angeles home and is convinced it is both the ugliest and most beautiful city in the world.
Season 10 – The Whistleblower

Epilogue: Truth Is the First Casualty

Spotify | NPR One | Apple | Stitcher | iHeartRadio | Google | Amazon In war, truth is the first casualty. It's a military maxim attributed to Aeschylus, the father...

Sep 10, 2021
Season 10 – The Whistleblower

Extra: Into the Archive

Spotify | NPR One | Apple | Stitcher | iHeartRadio | Google | Amazon A class of college students at UMass Amherst became the first group of researchers to take...

Aug 31, 2021
Faith

Mourning interrupted

HOUMA, La. – Monique J. Washington keeps her hair braided in tight rows, close to her head. It...

Jul 13, 2021
Faith

Separated by diaspora, modern-day healers divine the wisdom of their ancestors

Growing up, Ani Kalafian had heard stories of how her great-grandmother, an Armenian healer living in Iran, had...

May 14, 2021
Rights

57 years after MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, the Black church marches on

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” began humbly, as a few sentences...

Apr 16, 2021
Faith

Evangelical disillusionment is finding a home in book clubs

In 2016, Annelie Heinen’s frustration with evangelical culture exploded. The native Iowan had been attending evangelical churches for...

Mar 29, 2021
Rights

After Georgia wins, voting rights advocates see a window for election reform

Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock swept Georgia’s Senate runoff races on Tuesday, capping Georgia's astonishing...

Jan 08, 2021
Democracy

Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger: strong against Trump, weak on voting rights

ATLANTA — Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger took a call from President Donald Trump on Saturday unlike...

Jan 04, 2021
Democracy

How can the U.S. restore trust in its elections?

Updated on Nov. 16, 2020 at 6:49 p.m. PHOENIX — In the newly designated “free speech zone” outside...

Nov 16, 2020
Democracy

Deep in the heart of Texas oil country, some hope for a Trump victory like their life depends on it

ODESSA, Texas – In a parking lot in El Paso, just yards from the U.S.-Mexico border, dozens of...

Nov 05, 2020
ON THE GROUND WITH AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

‘Passing the baton’: Civil Rights era elders are helping protestors channel activism into voting for change

This dispatch is part of a series in collaboration with PBS American Experience that explores the expansion of...

Nov 02, 2020
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