
Miranda Spivack
Investigative Reporter and Editor at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
Journalist at Freelance
Author, Backroom Deals in our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back - The New Press 2025
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1 month ago |
contrarian.substack.com | Miranda Spivack
By Miranda S. SpivackAs it continues its multi-pronged war on its own government, the Trump administration has been gutting its own trove of data and documents while trying to exempt from public view the details of Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn system to deconstruct the civil service. The result has been the disappearance or, in some cases, alterations in federal data and documents about a wide range of issues: health care, environmental justice, public safety and police conduct, among many others.
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1 month ago |
bookshop.org | Miranda Spivack
How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back This title will be released on May 6, 2025 Add to Wishlist Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Description Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize A groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against their local and state governments to keep their communities safe, by an award-winning journalist Most Americans are likely to encounter the effects of...
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Sep 10, 2023 |
seattletimes.com | Miranda Spivack
SALT LAKE CITY — When Dino Fusco began traveling to Salt Lake City in the early 2000s for Goldman Sachs’ real estate arm, the odds of finding a coffee shop or brewpub were essentially zero. The influence of the generally conservative Mormon community over state politics and social issues made alcohol and caffeine scarce. But in 2002, Utah began to plant the seeds of nearly two decades of economic and cultural change, no more evident than in Salt Lake City, the capital.
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Sep 5, 2023 |
nytimes.com | Miranda Spivack
Shedding its stodgy image, the city has become a destination for start-ups looking for cheaper space and younger workers on the hunt for roomier housing. When Dino Fusco began traveling to Salt Lake City in the early 2000s for Goldman Sachs's real estate arm, the odds of finding a coffee shop or brewpub were essentially zero. The influence of the generally conservative Mormon community over state politics and social issues made alcohol and caffeine scarce.
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Jul 3, 2023 |
lapresse.ca | Miranda Spivack
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Thanks @Di_Cotter ! and yes, please preorder! You can find links to order the book here (lower left) https://t.co/8ink23GTso

Listen in as Miranda Spivack @mirandareporter reads excerpts from 'Backroom Deals in Our Backyards' .... @5AlarmTaskForce with Steven Greene Miranda Spivack and @Di_Cotter @thenewpress Preorder now ~ Bookstores MAY 6🔥 "It’s no secret that we, the general public, are not privy

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