Graham Smith
Graham Smith is a producer, reporter and editor whose curiosity has taken listeners around the U.S. and into conflict zones from the Mid-East to Asia and Africa.
Smith came to DC from WBUR Boston, NH Public Radio and the Christian Science Monitor. He's worked at ½ûÂþÌìÌà since 2003, producing for and running All Things Considered, editing Morning Edition and jumping in on various field assignments and special projects. He is now a senior producer on the Investigations Unit, helping independent journalists and ½ûÂþÌìÌà staffers to produce sound-rich, long-form pieces and podcasts.
Smith was a 2019 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his work on ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ's White Lies podcast. In previous years, he accepted the Robert F. Kennedy and the Edward R. Murrow awards for investigations with Youth Radio. He earned a Murrow for battlefield reporting from Afghanistan, and another for producing in Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis. Smith also received the George Foster Peabody award for editing a series on teen sex trafficking in Oakland.
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Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.
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Each year the State Department releases its Country Reports on Human Rights. ½ûÂþÌìÌà has obtained internal State department documents that show major changes coming this year
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The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses. -
First responder communications show the power company in Altadena was slow to respond to Eaton firefighters — and that live power lines sparked new fires days after flames first broke out. -
Three people died and nearly a dozen were injured in a deadly accident that the military initially lied about, then buried. -
In an update to ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ's Taking Cover investigation, a U.S. senator asks for answers from the Marines and an Army soldier, still serving on active duty, has been denied the truth about his war wounds.
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The ½ûÂþÌìÌà Taking Cover podcast team tracks down the family of an Iraqi man who was mistakenly killed by Marines.
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Details of a deadly incident during the Iraq War were buried by the Marine Corps for years, including links to a powerful politician.
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In 2004, a U.S. general told the family of an Iraqi interpreter that insurgents killed their brother. The truth was more painful: He was mistakenly killed by Americans he had risked his life to help. -
A mortar blast killed two Marines in Iraq almost 20 years ago. But families weren't told for years it was "friendly fire," a tragic accident, despite regulations. Some of the wounded were never told.
