Jon Schuppe

Senior Tech Reporter, NBC News Digital Company Description: NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and stre...

NBC News is hiring a well-sourced senior tech reporter to join my team to focus the industry’s leading companies, CEOs, products and their impact on society.

The reporter will publish exclusive news once per week in a new newsletter, along with other enterprise work.

Can be in NYC, SF or DC.

A few weeks ago, I was informed I was being laid off from NBC News. I’d been on bereavement and medical leave, so it was a bit of a shock. After taking some time to reset, I am now open and looking for work both in and outside of journalism. Get in touch at hello@daysiatolentino.com.

Texas lawmaker moves to outlaw medical research on corpses without consent after NBC News investigation The University of North Texas Health Science Center dissected and leased out hundreds of poor people’s bodies without their permission, the investigation found.

A Texas lawmaker is moving to ban the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research following our @nbcnews.com investigation www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I would never have entered the Polk Awards in 2019 were it not for Susan Carroll insisting on it and no one was happier than she when I won. I’m so proud of her for this win and of @mikehixenbaugh.com & colleagues’ great work honoring her. I wish she was here to celebrate what she always deserved. 💔

The families of L.A. wildfire victims confront the failures that prevented escape One month after the devastation, the public and California’s government are facing tough questions about their approach to wildfires.

The heartbreaking stories of those who died in the LA wildfires may help us better understand how to prevent more deaths as disasters get more intense - and evacuations become more dire.

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Mississippi officers accused of shooting a mother in the head during a car chase Sherita Harris, who suffered grievous injuries, said the indictment of two Mississippi Capitol Police officers brought her some relief.

Harris, whose wounds have left her with memory loss and a partially paralyzed face, told me she thought her shooting would go forgotten.

Now she has hope someone will be held responsible.

Jordan has been held in jail for 2.5 years awaiting trial.

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Mississippi officers accused of shooting a mother in the head during a car chase Sherita Harris, who suffered grievous injuries, said the indictment of two Mississippi Capitol Police officers brought her some relief.

Sherita Harris, riding in the passenger seat, got hit in the head. They also shot at the driver, Sinatra Jordan, who they charged with shooting at the officers, though no gun was found.

Yesterday state authorities charged the officers in Harris’s shooting — and firing on Jordan.

Mississippi officers accused of shooting a mother in the head during a car chase Sherita Harris, who suffered grievous injuries, said the indictment of two Mississippi Capitol Police officers brought her some relief.

Another twist Mississippi’s anti-crime crackdown in Jackson:

In August 2022, Mississippi Capitol Police officers fired on a car they were chasing in downtown Jackson - the first of four shootings in the first six months of a new downtown deployment.

As families searched, a Texas medical school cut up their loved ones The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses. It suspended the program after NBC News exposed failures to treat the dead and the...

Source: Mike Hixenbaugh (@mikehixenbaugh.com), Jon Schuppe (@jonschuppe.bsky.social) and Susan Carroll, The University of North Texas’ body parts business: Cutting up and leasing out the poor, NBC News
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From smoke to roaring flames: Inside the first hours of the deadly Pacific Palisades fire The largest wildfire to hit Los Angeles this week rapidly tore through homes and communities, whipped by winds that sent embers skyward.

Several witnesses to the epicenter of the Palisades Fire talked to us about what they saw, and the harrowing decisions they had to make while watching their neighborhood, Palisades Highlands, burn. W/ @lewiskamb @colinnbc.bsky.social

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Dealing the Dead NBC News exposed how a Texas medical school cut up the unclaimed bodies of the poor and leased them without consent or the knowledge of their families.

Catch up with the rest of our months-long investigation here --> www.nbcnews.com/dealing-the-... @jonschuppe.bsky.social @mikehixenbaugh.com

Here’s a portion of our report with @noticiastelemundo.bsky.social about a young woman from Venezuela who was murdered in Dallas and then used for research as her mother desperately sought to have her body returned home.

Full story and video here: www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

How did unclaimed bodies end up in the hands of a major biotech company? Boston Scientific’s Relievant Medsystems used at least 25 unclaimed bodies for training, including that of a murdered 21-year-old woman whose family was fighting to bring her home. The company said it...

#FOIA requests pry loose internal emails of biotech firm's handwringing over questions about use of unclaimed corpses for medical research without consent from the dead or their families - a look into the shadowy body-brokering trade, via @tktk.bsky.social @jonschuppe.bsky.social @mikehixenbaugh.com

'We didn't know she was dead': How an NBC News investigation helped families find answers Survivors were stunned and heartbroken after learning from reporters that a Texas medical school had dissected and studied their relatives’ bodies without consent.

Here are some of the stories, each one unique and heartbreaking, of families we encountered during our investigation of the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research.
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How did unclaimed bodies end up in the hands of a major biotech company? Boston Scientific’s Relievant Medsystems used at least 25 unclaimed bodies for training, including that of a murdered 21-year-old woman whose family was fighting to bring her home. The company said it...

NEW: We obtained internal emails from a major biotech company, Boston Scientific, showing how they scrambled to deal with our @nbcnews.com investigation that found they'd used the unclaimed dead for training

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A veteran's corpse was sent across state lines — before his family knew he was dead Libero Marinelli Jr.’s journey from a public hospital to a for-profit body broker demonstrates the peril of an industry with little regulation, an NBC News investigation found.

A veteran's corpse was sent across state lines — before his family even knew he was dead.

Here's the latest in our @nbcnews.com investigation into how the unclaimed dead become commodities in the U.S. body trade. @jonschuppe.bsky.social @tktk.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

A veteran's corpse was sent across state lines — before his family knew he was dead Libero Marinelli Jr.’s journey from a public hospital to a for-profit body broker demonstrates the peril of an industry with little regulation, an NBC News investigation found.

A South Carolina veteran died alone in a hospital — and without anyone telling his family, his corpse was sent out of state to a for-profit body broker.

His story demonstrates the peril of an industry with little regulation, NBC News found.

Dealing corpses from a Las Vegas strip mall: A look inside the shadowy U.S. body trade A disgraced chiropractor found a new job selling bodies. In an industry with few guardrails, he soon faced accusations of mishandling human remains.

Why would business records of a company that buys and sells bodies show purchases at PetSmart?

The explanation involves metal dog food bowls, severed human heads and Botox.

Read the latest in our @nbcnews.com series on what happens to the bodies of poor people. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...