Tom Scheck
Deputy Managing Editor of Investigations | APM ReportsTom Scheck is the Deputy Managing Editor of Investigations.
Prior to his promotion, he was a founding member of APM Reports. His reporting on mismanagement and allegations of maltreatment at a northern Minnesota juvenile treatment center led to the facility’s closure. He also contributed to a story that revealed that administrators within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency downplayed a controversial study on hydraulic fracking on water quality. He also revealed that a Covid-19 testing company cut corners to make money during the pandemic.
As a reporter for MPR News, Scheck also contributed to an investigation into the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, which won several national awards including an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. His work has appeared on NPR, Marketplace, ProPublica and Reveal. Scheck also teaches data journalism at the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Prior to his work at APM/MPR News, Tom worked for Indiana Public Radio. He’s a graduate of Syracuse University.
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The police department has struggled to solve homicides, partly due to shoddy detective work, staffing shortages and eroding community trust. -
These St. Louis families have been waiting for years in hopes of getting answers after their loved ones were killed. While parents, siblings and others say police seem to have forgotten them — they have not. -
The city’s homicide unit has dealt with short staffing, long hours and a ballooning DNA backlog. -
Several officers in the homicide unit faced internal complaints that they slept on the job, failed to get key evidence and lied to superiors. -
In the past decade, police solved fewer than half of the homicide cases with Black victims and two-thirds of the cases with white ones. -
In one of America’s deadliest cities, police have struggled to solve killings due to staffing shortages, shoddy detective work and lack of community trust. -
Newly released data reveals no resolution for families of more than 750 homicide victims. Police refused to release homicide clearance data, so we sued to find out. -
St. Louis officials are celebrating a big drop in murders while the city’s police classify more and more killings as “justifiable homicides” instead. -
An investigation by St. Louis Public Radio and APM Reports found at least five homeless people froze to death this winter after city officials declined to fund a 24-hour walk-in shelter.
