Tom Scheck

Investigative Reporter for APM Reports. Contributor to NPR News and Marketplace. Former reporter at MPR News. DM for signal

[Tom Scheck @tomscheck]

GS Labs spread across the country with the promise of reliable, convenient Covid testing. @apmreports finds that the company has at times delivered inaccurate results, faced backlogs, charged high prices, and pushed customers into unnecessary tests. https://t.co/TBWTV4G2Pl

[The Minnesota Star Tribune @StarTribune]

‘An open secret’: New records reveal officials failed to act on fraud warnings https://t.co/3cfUtWJpt9

[Tom Scheck @tomscheck]

A review of public records by the Star Tribune found a sharp increase in threats to elected officials even before Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed last June. There were death threats, bomb scares, intimidation & warnings of torture.

https://t.co/CYcUUhfen2

[The Minnesota Star Tribune @StarTribune]

‘No humanity’: Detainees describe conditions inside Whipple Federal Building https://t.co/zA0oM1zsOj

[Tom Scheck @tomscheck]

@christopherhale Do you have additional details on this? if so, would you send to my email?

[Steve Mills @smmills1960]

NEW: It was great working on this investigation with our good friends at the @strib, including @AndrewMannix, @LeilaNavidi, @tomscheck and @EWieffering. Plus so many others who made this story read and look great!

https://t.co/iCOaXQAs5n

[Tom Scheck @tomscheck]

The Minnesota Star Tribune’s Andy Mannix and ProPublica’s Jessica Lussenhop collaborated on an investigation into a church community in Duluth. They found that church leaders enabled a child abuser by telling his victims to forgive and forget.

https://t.co/3TVRhWdph3

[Mediagazer @mediagazer]

How The Minnesota Star Tribune bolstered its shoe-leather reporting by using ChatGPT to analyze handwritten Faux Cyrillic journal entries of a mass shooter (@tomscheck / Poynter)

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[Tom Scheck @tomscheck]

This is a big deal. Congrats to @ehanford and the Sold a Story team!

[Apple Podcasts @ApplePodcasts]

Do you remember how you were taught to read?

On our new Series Essential pick, @ehanford explores the schools that bought into a flawed method to teach reading, the publishers who made millions off it & the laws enacted based on this groundbreaking investigation.

https://t.co/SLYTK2CiZg

[Christopher Peak @CLPeak]

Come work with @ehanford and me on our next "Sold a Story" investigation. We're looking for a remote, yearlong fellow to start this fall. DM me if you're thinking of applying. https://t.co/o7HSWqoJqL

[Catherine Winter @C_E_Winter]

The @InTheDarkTNY team has been investigating this story for four years. New Yorker subscribers can hear Eps 1 and 2 today. https://t.co/zdeLQWOqAm

[Caitlin Thompson @caitlin_reports]

Homeowners desperate for cash turned to these "sale-leaseback" deals. My investigation for @NPR found it cost some people tens of thousands. Some were even evicted from homes they used to own.

https://t.co/fgGukCdrHO

[Brian Munoz @brianmmunoz]

We spent years investigation the @SLMPD's Homicide Unit. What did we learn? Here are 5 takeaways.

The final in this series (for now) by @stlpublicradio's @rlippman, and @apmreports' @jenpenned and @tomscheck.

https://t.co/sIfTRaevMl

[Tom Scheck @tomscheck]

We were lucky to work with @rlippmann @brianmmunoz @stlpublicradio and @MarshallProj on this project. Please read the thread and the stories —->

[Rachel Lippmann @rlippmann]

Today marks the final story in “Unsolved” - an investigation by @stlpublicradio, @apmreports and @TheMarshallProject. (1/13)

[Tom Scheck @tomscheck]

Thousands of family members and friends wait for St. Louis police to solve the killing of their loved ones. Read and listen to their stories, and see the amazing photography. W @rlippmann @brianmmunoz @ShahlaFarzan

https://t.co/wa0Cb594Ob

[Brian Munoz @brianmmunoz]

@SLMPD @apmreports @tomscheck @jenpenned @stlpublicradio @rlippmann The final word in this week’s @stlpublicradio, @apmreports, and @marshallproj investigation into the @SLMPD goes to the St. Louisans who want justice for their killed relatives. /7

✍️/📸: myself, @shahlafarzan, @rlippmann, @tomscheck and @erjlee

https://t.co/zQLQDorz53

[The Midwest Newsroom @NPRMidwestNews]

INVESTIGATION: Why 1,000 homicides in St. Louis remain unsolved | @stlpublicradio @MarshallProj @apmreports

Police have struggled to solve killings due to staffing shortages, shoddy detective work and lack of community trust.
https://t.co/knZVFeQWL1

[Lois Beckett @loisbeckett]

Roughly 1,900 homicides have been committed in St. Louis since 2014.

More than 1,000 remain unsolved.

Police solved nearly two-thirds cases involving White victims.

But for killings of Black victims, they solved fewer than half.

https://t.co/cTxrPzIp8P

[Tom Scheck @tomscheck]

@JRHSTLGolfs @stlpublicradio @apmreports @MarshallProj Nearly 90% of the city’s homicides involve Black victims.

[Roxanne Szal @roxyszal]

Of the roughly 1,900 homicides committed in St. Louis from 2014 through 2023, more than 1,000 remain unsolved, reports @MarshallProj, @apmreports & @stlpublicradio. Here's why. https://t.co/ULz2DG6lMI

[St. Louis Public Radio @stlpublicradio]

St. Louis' homicide unit also had to juggle “chronic understaffing,” budget problems and a ballooning backlog of DNA samples.

The latest in our "Unsolved" investigation series with @apmreports & @MarshallProj: 2/2 https://t.co/Fvstem3eJ8