Michael Montgomery

San Francisco

Senior Reporter and Producer at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting

Investigative journalist. Senior producer/reporter/editor/occasional host, Reveal + Center for Investigative Reporting. [email protected]

Articles

They challenged California over solitary confinement and broke a supermax prison

3 weeks ago | revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |Brett Myers |Nikki Frick |Steven Rascon

At 18, Jack Morris was convicted of murdering a man in South Los Angeles and sent to prison for life. It was 1979, and America was entering the era of mass incarceration, with tough sentencing laws ballooning the criminal justice system. As California’s prison population surged, so did prison violence. “You learn that in order to survive, you yourself then have to become predatorial,” Morris says.
We’re celebrating a decade of Reveal with our biggest investigations and impact

1 month ago | revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Jonathan Jones |Michael I Schiller |Michael Montgomery

The first pilot episode of Reveal exposed how the Department of Veterans Affairs was overprescribing opioids to veterans and contributing to an overdose crisis. Journalist Aaron Glantz explained how he received—surprisingly quickly—a decade’s worth of opioid prescription data from the federal government. “Sometimes, you have to sue to get the records,” he said.
Comments on “Marathon versus Sprint: Two Modes of Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification in a Global Convection-Permitting Simulation”

1 month ago | journals.ametsoc.org | Michael Montgomery |Roger Smith

Keywords: Deep convection; Tropical cyclones; Vorticity1. IntroductionIn their thought-provoking paper, Judt et al. (2023) used a 40-day-long global convection-permitting simulation to explore the rapid intensification (RI) of tropical cyclones and found that out of the 23 tropical cyclones produced by the simulation, seven experienced RI.
Behind Trump’s victory, there are many contradictions

Nov 16, 2024 | revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |Najib Aminy |Ashley Cleek |Nadia Hamdan

As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House for a second term, the reasons people voted him into office are becoming more clear. For Micki Witthoeft, it’s cause for celebration. Her daughter, Ashli Babitt, was shot and killed by a police officer after storming the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Today, Witthoeft is confident Trump will stand by his word and pardon everyone involved. “He said his administration’s going to be one on ‘promises made and promises kept,’ ” she said.
How swing states are still grappling with the Big Lie, and an exclusive Kamala Harris interview

Oct 26, 2024 | revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Michael I Schiller |Michael Montgomery |Nina Martin

In 2020, as elections officials counted votes in Phoenix, protesters swarmed outside the Maricopa County election center. Many held flags; some had AR-15s. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was there yelling into a bullhorn, “Burn in hell, Joe Biden.” They claimed the election was stolen. Since then, dozens of court cases across the country have all found no evidence of widespread fraud.
Minority rule is threatening US democracy

Oct 5, 2024 | revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Nikki Frick |Steven Rascon

As any schoolkid might tell you, US elections are based on a bedrock principle: one person, one vote. Simple as that. Each vote carries the same weight. Yet for much of the country’s history, that hasn’t been the case. At various points, whole classes of people were shut out of voting: enslaved Black Americans, Native Americans, and poor White people. The first time women had the right to vote was in 1919. The reality is that one person, one vote is far from how American democracy actually works.
How the Mormon church keeps child sexual abuses cases secret

Jul 20, 2024 | revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |Brett Myers |Nikki Frick |Jim Briggs

Chelsea Goodrich and her mother, Lorraine, were locked in discussions with the director of the Mormon church’s risk management division, Paul Rytting. One of Rytting’s jobs is to protect the church from legal liability, including sexual abuse lawsuits. The women had come to the meeting with one clear request: Would the church allow a local Idaho bishop who heard Chelsea’s father’s confession of abuse to testify against him at trial?
El ojo del tigre - Película (1986)

Jul 2, 2024 | dcine.org | Michael Montgomery

Datos técnicos y repartoDATOS TÉCNICOSTítulo internacional: Guion: Michael Thomas MontgomeryFotografía: Estreno en España: REPARTOBert Remsen, Denise Galik, William Smith, Kimberlin Brown…Vota esta película: Argumento: Buck Matthews, un veterano de la guerra de Vietnam, ha pasado una temporada en prisión. Ahora, ya libre, intenta regresar a su ciudad natal con la intención de dejar atrás su pasado trágico y tener una vida tranquila junto a su esposa e hija.
In the Arizona desert, wells run dry as foreign-owned farms make bank

Jun 8, 2024 | revealnews.org | Nathan Halverson |Michael Montgomery |Cynthia Rodriguez |Nikki Frick

For years, a Saudi-owned hay farm has been using massive amounts of water in the middle of the Arizona desert and exporting the hay back to Saudi Arabia. The farm’s water use has attracted national attention and criticism since Reveal’s Nate Halverson and Ike Sriskandarajah first broke this story more than eight years ago. Since then, the water crisis in the American West has only worsened as megafarms have taken hold there.
National Journalist Q&A: Michael Luongo

Jun 1, 2024 | outnw.com | Michael Montgomery

International Travel WriterWhat or who inspired you to become a journalist? It’s hard to say specifically who or what inspired me, though I have always loved to write and photograph, ever since I was little, and they were things I was good at.