Rachael Levy

Business correspondent, Reuters

United States

Rachael Levy is an award-winning enterprise reporter covering the inner workings of companies. Over the past decade, Levy's reporting has spanned Wall Street, Silicon Valley, health care and national security. Her work has prompted U.S. federal investigations and congressional scrutiny. It has been featured on national television, radio and podcasts.

Most recently, her investigations of Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were part of a Reuters series that won George Polk, SABEW and other investigative and business journalism awards. Her stories prompted congressional scrutiny and federal probes of Neuralink. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/musk-inc/

She was previously a financial reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where she regularly broke front-page exclusives on the world's titans of finance. A series she led on the Trump White House's Kodak drug deal won a 2021 Dateline Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

At Politico, her coverage of the Biden administration's handling of the pandemic prompted the CDC to update guidance on N95 masks and the U.S. hospital regulator to seek patients' safety complaints.

For news tips, reach her at 202-967-6233. If it's sensitive, use the encrypted app Signal. Reuters provides additional secure ways to contact her: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tips/

Portfolio
Reuters
12/06/2022
Exclusive: Musk's Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests

Elon Musk's Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the investigation and company operations.

WSJ
02/08/2021
WSJ Exclusive | Capitol Riot Warnings Weren't Acted On as System Failed

"Nothing significant to report,” read a Jan. 5 national summary from DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis that was sent to law enforcement across the country, according to a copy reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The office is responsible for monitoring threats online and sharing them with federal, state and local law enforcement.