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Tennessee Watson is WyoFile's deputy managing editor. She was a 2020 Nieman Abrams Fellow for Local Investigative Journalism and Wyoming Public Radio's education reporter.

Thomas Bass is the author of eight books, including The Eudaemonic Pie, The Predictors, Camping with the Prince, The Spy Who Loved Us, and Return to Fukushima. Cited by the Overseas Press Club for his...

Nate Smallwood is a freelance photojournalist and documentary filmmaker based in Pittsburgh, Pa. Smallwood earned a degree from Ohio University School of Visual Communication. Following internships...

The institutions that comprise Pennsylvania’s justice system hold extraordinary power over the lives of residents. Danielle Ohl holds those institutions accountable and examines what it means to...

Josie Mottl is a senior and one of the co-editors-in-chief for The Kirkwood Call, the student newspaper at Kirkwood High School in Kirkwood, Missouri. Mottl plans to attend the University of Missouri...

Kiley Huang is a senior at Kirkwood High School in Kirkwood, Missouri. She is the editor-in-chief of the school's student newspaper, The Kirkwood Call, vice president of the START Club and KH Choirs...

Sarah Almukhtar is a designer and journalist. She worked for The New York Times from 2015 to 2024, where she designed visual stories about the news using data, mapping, and multimedia. Her...

Susanna Granieri is a researcher and reporter for First Amendment Watch, a nonprofit newsroom housed at New York University. Her past internships include writing for the Legislative Gazette, an Albany...

Sam Rabiyah is a journalist and multidisciplinary technologist based in New York. He works at the intersection of investigative reporting, counter-mapping, data visualization, and oral history to make...

Karen Pinchin is a Canadian science journalist and author whose projects investigate and reveal how consumption, history, and technology shape our shared warming world. A graduate of Columbia...

January 9, 2026