Audrey Ash - Producer, Investigations
Audrey Ash
Producer, Investigations
Audrey Ash is an award-winning journalist based in Atlanta, and a producer for CNN's Investigations Unit.
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‘Incompetent dumpster fire’: Michigan GOP rocked by financial turmoil and infighting
Dec 25, 2023
The Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference often lures a who’s who of GOP power players to Michigan. Wealthy donors shake hands with presidential candidates, who give rousing speeches to packed audiences in hopes of winning the conference’s straw poll.
Class action lawsuit alleging discrimination filed against Navy Federal after CNN exclusive report
Dec 19, 2023
Class action lawsuit alleging discrimination filed against Navy Federal after CNN exclusive report
The nation’s largest credit union rejected more than half its Black conventional mortgage applicants
Dec 14, 2023
A major credit union serving military members and veterans rejected more than half of its Black conventional mortgage applicants
‘Change is necessary’: Coast Guard pledges reforms after mishandling reports of sexual assault
Dec 6, 2023
The US Coast Guard, rocked by allegations that its leaders for years concealed damning information about sexual assaults and other serious misconduct, released a highly critical report Wednesday acknowledging it had “failed to keep our people safe,” while vowing to make reforms that would better protect them.
Far-right conspiracy theorists accused a 22-year-old Jewish man of being a neo-Nazi. Then Elon Musk got involved
Nov 21, 2023
Ben Brody says his life was going fine. He had just finished college, stayed out of trouble, and was prepping for law school. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, Elon Musk used his considerable social media clout to amplify an online mob’s misguided rants accusing the 22-year-old from California of being an undercover agent in a neo-Nazi group.
Homemade rockets and modified AK-47s: An annotated look at Hamas’ deadly arsenal
Oct 13, 2023
Homemade rockets. Modified AK-47s. Decades-old Soviet machine guns. Cheap, second-hand, and purloined weapons comprised Hamas’ deadly makeshift arsenal that fueled a devastating, multi-pronged attack on Israel over the weekend.
Coast Guard Academy banned a retired captain from its grounds after CNN reported he sexted a student. Now more allegations are surfacing.
Sep 22, 2023
The US Coast Guard Academy on Friday announced it had banned a retired captain from its grounds following a CNN report this week that revealed the captain, who is now president of a small college, exchanged hundreds of sexually suggestive messages with a student more than a decade ago.
He was investigated for sexting a student at the Coast Guard Academy. He’s now a college president.
Sep 21, 2023
A college president, who wants his campus to become the business school “of choice for women,” once exchanged hundreds of sexually suggestive messages with a student he taught at the prestigious Coast Guard Academy, prompting prosecutors to recommend charges against him in military court, according to confidential records obtained by CNN.
CNN uncovered a damning, secret investigation into sexual assault at the US Coast Guard Academy. This woman’s case triggered that probe
Jul 12, 2023
CNN examined the case at the center of the US Coast Guard’s most sweeping investigation into sexual assaults at its academy. Her case not only shows how the Coast Guard routinely dismissed serious sexual misconduct in the past, but also how its failures continue to reverberate.
Criminal investigation into Coast Guard Academy revealed years of sexual assault cover-ups, but findings were kept secret
Jun 30, 2023
A secret investigation into alleged sexual abuse at the US Coast Guard Academy, the training ground for the Coast Guard’s top officers, uncovered a dark history of rapes, assaults and other serious misconduct being ignored and, at times, covered up by high-ranking officials.
Alito in the hot seat over trips to Alaska and Rome he accepted from groups and individuals who lobby the Supreme Court
Jun 22, 2023
Concerns about ethics and transparency at the Supreme Court have been reignited this week after Justice Samuel Alito acknowledged attending a luxury fishing trip on the private jet of a conservative hedge fund manager.
As horse racing’s best trainers rake in millions, records show they’ve violated rules aimed at keeping the animals safe
Jun 10, 2023
As horse racing’s elite saddle up for the final race of the coveted Triple Crown at New York’s Belmont Stakes, the sport’s top trainers will face off for their share of the $1.5 million purse at the lavish, star-studded event – amid growing scrutiny after a recent spate of horse deaths.
Jan. 6 Committee failed to hold social media companies to account for their role in the Capitol attack, staffers and witnesses say
Jan 27, 2023
“There might be someone getting shot tomorrow.”
Election deniers in charge of some county election offices are continuing to sow mistrust in the electoral system
Oct 21, 2022
A wave of election officials left their posts after suffering harassment. Their exodus has opened the door in some places to election conspiracists.
Trump-backed GOP pick for Michigan AG has been a vocal supporter of election lies. Emails show just how far he’s gone for the cause
Sep 22, 2022
Months after Joe Biden’s 2020 victory over Donald Trump in Michigan had been certified, and confirmed by audits and voting reviews, a clerk in rural Barry County received an unusual and confusing request from Matthew DePerno, an attorney in Kalamazoo.
About
Audrey Ash is an award-winning journalist based in Atlanta, and a producer for CNN’s Investigations Unit. She graduated with a Bachelors in International Studies from Centre College, and a Masters in Investigative Journalism from City, University of London. Audrey has reported on both domestic and international breaking news stories, and currently focuses on domestic threats to democracy.
