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Investigative Reporter and documentary filmmaker
About
Stephen Janis is an award winning investigative reporter turned documentary filmmaker. His first feature film, The Friendliest Town was distributed by Gravitas Ventures and won an award of distinction from The Impact Doc Film Festival, and a humanitarian award from The Indie Film Fest.
He is the co-host and creator of The Police Accountability Report on The Real News Network, which has received more than 55 million views on YouTube. His work as a reporter has been featured on a variety of national shows including the Netflix reboot of Unsolved Mysteries, Dead of Night on Investigation Discovery Channel, Relentless on NBC, and Sins of the City on TV One and NBCs Dateline.
He has co-authored several books on policing, corruption, and the root causes of violence including Why Do We Kill: The Pathology of Murder in Baltimore and You Cant Stop Murder: Truths about Policing in Baltimore and Beyond. He is also the co-host of the true crime podcast Land of the Unsolved. Prior to joining The Real News, Janis won three Capital Emmys for investigative series working as an investigative producer for WBFF.
Featured Work
The Friendliest Town
The first black police chief of a small racially divided town lowered crime with community style policing. But after he was abruptly fired, the battle over why he was let go raised the consciousness of the town's black population
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Tax Broke
The great inequality divide in America is no accident. Tax Broke tells the story of how one of the poorest cities in America has made a small group of developers rich. A history of fleecing of a great American city.
View OnlineSwimming in Baltmore: How Poverty Works
In 2015 TRNN explored the political dynamics that made poverty both profitable and intractable in Baltimore in this long-form documentary.
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