About Me

I’m an investigative journalist and editor, and I enjoy leading ambitious, highly collaborative reporting projects that expose how our governments and the powerful fail us. I love working on accountability stories with other journalists and have edited pieces that have been co-published with dozens of news outlets.

For more than a decade, I’ve been lucky enough to work at a top-notch investigative newsroom as an editor at The Marshall Project — the nonpartisan, nonprofit covering crime and justice in the U.S. I oversee The Marshall Project’s coverage of prisons, jails and the death penalty. I’ve helped it to grow from a scrappy band of about 20 people to now more than 80 employees across the country.

I spearheaded “The Next To Die,” a data-rich project that tracked every person scheduled to be executed in the U.S. This complex effort relied on a network that I built of journalists across 10 newsrooms who followed each capital case. I edited the project over its run of more than five years. When we wound down “The Next to Die,” I wrote a story analyzing what it taught us about the practice of capital punishment today.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I oversaw our work tracking coronavirus cases and deaths in prisons, leading a team of dozens of reporters from The Marshall Project and the Associated Press who tallied outbreaks every week for more than a year.

I edited “Detained,” a multimedia examination of the century-long history of immigration detention in the U.S. And I produced “The Zo,” a series of animated short films illustrated by Molly Crabapple and narrated by Michael K. Williams that explored the surreal nature of life in prison.

As a reporter and data journalist, I worked with two Marshall Project colleagues to report a series of stories co-published with The New York Times on how New York prison officials fail to fire correctional officers after they are credibly accused of serious abuse of incarcerated people and cover-ups.

Projects that I edited have won National Magazine Awards, national Edward R. Murrow awards, Online Journalism Awards, a Society for News Design gold medal, a National Headliner Award, and more. My reporting has been honored with a Robert F. Kennedy Award for criminal justice reporting, a Nonprofit News Award for investigative journalism, a “Human Rights” award from Malofiej, and a Data Journalism Award, among others. If you want to know more about my career, you can check out a PDF of my resume.

A news leader, I helped to build and launch three newsrooms from the ground up, and I have managed interdisciplinary teams of visual journalists, designers, developers and data journalists. I regularly teach investigative and data reporting skills, passing along my own hard-earned knowledge and practices to early-career journalists and students at conferences and universities around the world.

I live in New Jersey with my family, and in my free time, I enjoy music, running and playing and watching soccer.

I am a compulsive list-maker, and these lists might give you more insight into me, my work and my hobbies:

Contact

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