Jonathan Jones is a reporter and producer for Reveal. In his two decades in journalism, he has produced a series of investigations on topics ranging from eminent domain to the energy transition. He was the lead reporter for Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe, an award-winning seven-part series investigating the suspicious officer-involved death of a 17-year-old Black student. In 2018, Jones, along with colleagues at WNYC’s Snap Judgment, won Best Documentary Gold Award at the Third Coast International Audio Festival for “Counted: An Oakland Story,” which profiled those lost to violence in Oakland, California. In 2015, his exposé of Firestone’s operations during the Liberian Civil War for ProPublica and PBS Frontline was awarded two News & Documentary Emmy Awards for outstanding investigative journalism and outstanding research, as well as the top Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in the large multiplatform category. In 2013, he teamed up with A.C. Thompson of ProPublica and PBS Frontline on a yearlong investigation into abuse and neglect at the largest assisted-living company in the United States.
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