About Us
The Unreported Story Society 501c(3) was founded in 2017 with a mission to tell the stories that the mainstream media ignores through art and modern media. The organization was founded by award-winning journalists and best-selling authors Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer. Since its founding, the Unreported Story Society has created successful plays like FBI Lovebirds: Undercovers and has produced several podcasts including The Ann & Phelim Scoop and The Harvey Weinstein Trial: Unfiltered. McElhinney and McAleer are best known for their films Fracknation and the Gosnell Movie. You can enjoy their commentary and reporting in their weekly podcast, The Ann & Phelim Scoop.
Ann McElhinney
Ann McElhinney is a New York Times best-selling author, journalist, podcaster, film producer and director and one of the most successful crowdfunders in the world.
Together with her husband, Phelim McAleer, McElhinney, wrote and produced OCTOBER 7, a verbatim play based entirely on the testimony of survivors of the October 7 attack on Israel. It had a six-week, off-Broadway run and the only play in New York that needed permanent police protection.
Phelim McAleer
Phelim McAleer is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, playwright, podcaster and a New York Times bestselling author.He began his career in journalism covering the Northern Ireland Troubles first as a reporter in Crossmaglen, South Armagh (known as Bandit Country) and then for The Irish News in Belfast. He subsequently worked for the (UK) Sunday Times and covered Eastern Europe for the Financial Times newspaper and The Economist.
He has made several movies and documentaries and recently has specialized in verbatim podcasts and plays. Most recently he produced and presented the 2025 plays Trans on Trial, based entirely on the transcripts of a dramatic five-day UK Charity Commission trial examining the Trans issue, and the Grooming Gangs Cover-Up, a verbatim film revealing the true story behind the UK Muslim “Grooming Gangs,”.