in his role as CEO and reporter. For Status Coup, Chariton has reported extensively in Flint Michigan continuing to cover the ongoing water crisis and government cover-up, along with on-the-ground coverage that has made national news headlines. In May 2018, he went to Virginia to cover protests against the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In 2019 and 2020, he traveled across the country covering the 2020 presidential campaign, focusing on Bernie Sanders' second presidential run, as well as other candidates. As in 2016, several of Chariton’s 2020 campaign interviews with supporters of President Trump went viral. Other reporting Chariton has done for Status Coup include coverage of gentrification in Seattle because of Amazon, covering the police killing of 25-year-old African American Botham Jean in Dallas, police violence in Chicago, several reporting trips during the Coronavirus pandemic, interviewing struggling tenants facing eviction and laid off workers, reporting in Florida on the controversial “Don’t Say Gay Bill,” in Buffalo on socialist India Walton’s mayoral campaign, in Ohio on Nina Turner's congressional campaign, and a multi-state “Economic Hunger Games” reporting tour where Chariton interviewed workers struggling due to inflation and homeless people. Status Coup also uses freelance reporters in different parts of the U.S. Flint Water Crisis Chariton has made over 18 trips to Flint to investigate and report on the Flint Water Crisis. His reports have appeared in the Detroit Metro Times, TheHill.com, and popular YouTube news channel Breaking Points. In 2020 and 2021, in a publishing collaboration with VICE News, The Intercept, and The Guardian, Chariton's Status Coup broke four significant investigative stories on the Flint water cover-up in those outlets. One of those stories, which Status Coup's Chariton and Dize co-published with The Intercept and Detroit Metro Times, revealed top officials' part of ex-Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's administration had their phones "wiped clean" shortly before the launch of the Flint water criminal investigation. In response to the story, Congressional House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Carolyn Maloney issued a statement condemning Governor Snyder for his "choice to put money over the lives of the children in Flint." Sources with the Congressional Oversight committee told Status Coup News it would be investigating the potential destruction of evidence by top Snyder administration officials revealed in the story. Chariton and Status Coup's Flint water investigative reporting has led to Chariton appearing on Flint native Michael Moore's "Rumble" podcast twice along with other