Miles Parks
Miles Parks is a reporter on NPR's Washington Desk. He covers voting and elections, and also reports on breaking news.
Parks joined NPR as the 2014-15 Stone & Holt Weeks Fellow. Since then, he's investigated FEMA's efforts to get money back from Superstorm Sandy victims, profiled budding rock stars and produced for all three of NPR's weekday news magazines.
A graduate of the University of Tampa, Parks also previously covered crime and local government for The Washington Post and The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla.
In his spare time, Parks likes playing, reading and thinking about basketball. He wrote The Washington Post's obituary of legendary women's basketball coach Pat Summitt.
Content
- Thrown-out ballots and map confusion: Voters are losing the redistricting battle
- In many states, election-denying candidates are running to control voting
- The U.S. Supreme Court strikes another severe blow to the Voting Rights Act
- The new homeland security secretary has a history of pushing election misinformation
- 50 years after "All The President's Men," do films still explore presidential power?
- Americans are split on wanting the National Guard to monitor voting, a new poll finds
- ICE won't be at polling places this year, a Trump DHS official promises
- Trump says he wants Republicans to 'nationalize' elections