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Mago Torres is The Examination’s data editor, leading the data work behind its cross-border investigations. She works at the intersection of investigative journalism, data, research, and facilitation...

Bina Venkataraman is a media executive, journalist, and science & tech policy expert whose leadership roles have spanned The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT...

Davey Alba is a New York-based technology reporter for Bloomberg News, covering Big Tech and its power in all its forms. Her work has spanned topics as diverse as online misinformation, facial...

Jim Urquhart, a 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner, has covered extremism, armed violence, and the destabilization of the United States. He has spent time with violent hate groups, armed militias, and armed...

Odette Yousef is a national security correspondent at NPR, focusing on extremism. Yousef aims to explore how extremist ideas break into the mainstream, how individuals are radicalized, and the efforts...

Ryan Grieser is a journalism major at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He's expected to graduate in May 2026. Grieser is also a sports reporter at The Daily Egyptian, the student newspaper...

December 10, 2024

Madeline Cantrell is a senior journalism and political science undergraduate from the University of Oklahoma specializing in political and investigative reporting. From Kansas City, Missouri, she is...

Anna V. Smith is an associate editor on High Country News' Indigenous affairs desk. In 2022 she completed the Ted Scripps Fellowship at the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of...

November 20, 2024

Paige Vega is Vox’s climate editor. She steers the team’s coverage of the climate crisis, the environment, solutions and adaptations, and the energy transition. She writes at the intersection of...

November 19, 2024

Sebastian Fraccari is a student at the City University of New York's Hunter College. He is based in Brooklyn. He is a Roosevelt Scholar for public policy and he interned with Manhattan Community Board...

Joshua Montes is a journalism and political science student at Hunter College. He’s worked on his high school newspaper and aspires to be a broadcast journalist. His motivation is sharing stories that...