Podcast appearances and mentions of michael grabell

A nail in your tire isn't just a pain to repair but a potentially devastating financial hit when the bill comes due. Michael Grabell is a senior editor with ProPublica. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the rise in tire prices — 21.4 percent over the last two years — and how tires offer a window into stubborn inflation and supply-chain issues that continue to hamper the global economy. His article is “Overinflated: The Journey of a Humble Tire Reveals Why Prices Are Still So High.”

A once rare strain of salmonella found in poultry has spread largely unchecked, according to reporting by ProPublica. The strain, multidrug-resistant infantis, can send victims to the hospital and is resistant to many of the drugs used to combat food poisoning. We hear from two of the reporters who worked on the story. Michael Grabell is a ProPublica reporter and Irena Hwang is a data reporter with the organization.

Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung are investigative reporters at ProPublica. They won the George Polk Award for Health Reporting for their coverage of the meatpacking industry's response to the pandemic, including their feature "The Battle for Waterloo." This is the final part of our week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tejal Rao is the California restaurant critic for The New York Times and a columnist for The New York Times Magazine.“I've been thinking a lot about what makes a restaurant good…. Can a restaurant be good if it doesn't have wheelchair access? Can a restaurant be good if the farmers picking the tomatoes are getting sick? How much do we consider when we talk about if a restaurant is good or not? … If people are being exploited at every single point possible along the way, how good is the restaurant, really? … I worry that the pandemic has illuminated all of these issues and things are just going to keep going the way that they were.... That's what I worry about. That nothing will change.” Thanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @tejalrao tejalrao.com Rao's New York Times archive 01:00 "Is My Takeout Risking Lives or Saving Restaurants?" (New York Times • Apr 2020) 03:00 Rao's Atlantic archive 09:00 Rao's Saveur archive 13:00 "For Best Results, Eat This Roti Immediately" (New York Times • Oct 2020) 13:00 "Dining and Driving on the Empty Freeways of Los Angeles" (New York Times • Mar 2020) 14:00 "A Day in the Life of a Food Vendor" (New York Times • Apr 2017) 14:00 "India’s ‘Pickle Queen’ Preserves Everything, Including the Past" (New York Times • Jul 2020) 19:00 "Oysters: A Love Story" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2017) 26:00 "I Lost My Appetite Because of Covid. This Sichuan Flavor Brought It Back." (New York Times Magazine • Jan 2021) 30:00 "The Old-School Reasons to Love Los Angeles Restaurants" (New York Times • Feb 2019) 33:00 "How Kit Kat Got Big in Japan" (New York Times Magazine • Oct 2018) 43:00 "Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19" (Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung • ProPublica • Aug 2020) Illustration by Tony Millionaire   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Photo: Vote totals on the California Racial Justice Act (Kalra), AB 2542. From Ella Baker Center on Twitter On this show: 0:08 – Donald Trump is planning to visit Kenosha, Wisconsin, where unarmed father Jacob Blake was shot by police in the back seven times in August in front of his children. We talk about Trump's visit and Wisconsin politics with Ruth Conniff, editor in chief of the Wisconsin Examiner, a nonprofit newsroom. 0:34 – Gov. Newsom just signed an eviction prevention deal, but tenants' rights advocates say it's far from the rent and mortgage cancellation needed to keep people in their homes — and say that the measure is overly complicated and likely will leave renters behind, if they don't have legal representation to fight their evictions. Marc Janowitz is interim deputy director of the housing team at the East Bay Community Law Center, and Sara Hedgpeth-Harris is supervising attorney of the housing team at Central California Legal Services, based in Fresno. 1:08 – A cascade of bills on policing, prisons and racial justice passed — or failed — in the California state legislature Monday night, under a midnight deadline for the end of the legislative session. At stake were racism in sentencing, challenging “strikes” against Black jurors, a stalled effort to decertify police who commit misconduct, parole for elders, reducing jail fines and fees, and more. We talk about the policies with three guests: Derick Morgan is policy associate at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Amber-Rose Howard is executive director of CURB, Californians United for a Responsible Budget, and James Burch is director of policy at the Anti-Police Terror Project. 1:34 – Journalists Bernice Yeung and Michael Grabell join us to for an interview about the meatpacking industry and ProPublica's new investigation showing the industry knew for years that a respiratory illness like Covid-19 could have devastating consequences for its workforce and production. Read the piece here: Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19 The post A look at the racial justice bills that passed or failed before California's legislative deadline; plus, new investigation shows meatpacking industry knew of dangers of respiratory illness for years appeared first on KPFA.

For our December Narrative Medicine Rounds, we welcome Michael Grabell, an investigative reporter for ProPublica, covering economic issues, labor, immigration and trade. He has reported on the ground from more than 35 states, as well as some of the remotest villages in Alaska and Guatemala. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and the New York Times and on NPR, Vice and CBS News. This year, his stories on retaliation against immigrant workers won the Aronson Award for social justice journalism. Mr. Grabell will speak about the process reporters and journalists go through to delve into the truth of a breaking news story, specifically discussing how a reporting team at ProPublica approached the news about the treatment of children at the border, both the groups who were unaccompanied as well as those separated from parents, this past summer. In 2016, he and NPR reporter Howard Berkes received a Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism and top honors from Investigative Reporters and Editors for their series on the dismantling of workers’ comp systems across the country. Grabell’s series on the growth of temp work and its impact on workplace safety helped spur new laws in California and Illinois. The series won the Barlett & Steele Award for investigative business journalism, the American Society of News Editors Award for reporting on diversity and an award from the Online News Association for innovation in investigative journalism. He is the author of two books — a narrative history on President Obama’s attempts to revive the economy called Money Well Spent? and the poetry chapbook Macho Man, which won the Finishing Line Press competition in 2013. He is a graduate of Princeton University and started his journalism career writing obituaries for the Daily Record in Parsippany, N.J. Note: Topher Sanders, who was originally scheduled to speak, has scheduling conflicts.

ProPublica's Michael Grabell travels from the heart of Ohio to the mountains of Guatemala to track down immigrant workers harmed in American poultry plants.

This week How To Cover Money kicks off Series 2, Tips from Top Journalists. We caught up with Michael Grabell of ProPublica to talk about his recent investigative reporting series on the dangers temporary workers face in the United States. Grabell's series was awarded the 2014 Barlett and Steele Award for Investigative Journalism from the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and he offers us some tips on data journalism and taking on big stories. How To Cover Money is a weekly podcast from the Reynolds National Center For Business Journalism at Arizona State University. Reynolds Director Micheline Maynard and co-host Mark Remillard of KTAR News in Phoenix offer tips on ways to find the money in any story, even if you aren't a business journalist.

Full body X-ray scanners are now commonplace in airports across America. ProPublica reporter Michael Grabell tells us about a new report that has found that the U.S. government glossed over a number of safety concerns about the the devices—even ignoring concerns about a potential increased risk of cancer.

Michael Grabell of ProPublica has details on the final deal.