The work of Gaza’s journalists has been essential these past months, but as the challenges of reporting continue to mount, the world is getting only a fraction of the story.
For Palestinians who just left Gaza, witnessing the war from afar evokes helplessness and grief
Children account for a startlingly high share of Palestinians killed in Gaza — roughly 41%. Gaza's demography, geography, and IDF military tactics have contributed to the high death toll.
Censorship of social media and disruptions to electricity and internet access have meant people under fire in Gaza can’t get the information they need to survive.
New regulations on untraceable firearms have only spurred threats against law enforcement and efforts by extremist groups to avoid oversight. And as threats against federal law enforcement mount, experts on political violence question whether the government will be able to effectively respond and slow the tide of untraceable guns. For HuffPost National.
Extremism experts warn that a new crop of ideologues using voter fraud conspiracy theories and religious appeals are pushing their followers toward armed rebellion. I delved into news. To tell this story, l delved into campaign platforms, public appearances, posts on fringe websites and social media, analyzed engagement with their supporters, followed their newsletters, and closely tracked right-wing events.
For almost two years, I digitized the records published, making them searchable, and helped to analyze them in a database.
The New York Times made public hundreds of the Pentagon’s confidential assessments of reports of civilian casualties resulting from U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.
This work is part of a package that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (2022), a Polk Award for Military Reporting (2022), and The Roy Ronan Award from the Overseas Press Club (2022).
Working with the renowned Visual Investigations team at The New York Times, our investigation found inconsistent approaches to assessing claims of civilians killed by coalition forces — including failures to conduct simple internet searches.
This work is part of a package that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (2022) and The Roy Ronan Award from the Overseas Press Club (2022).
Co-published by ProPublica and FRONTLINE PBS, this report is part of our larger reporting on violent far-right extremist activity across the country. Through interviews, extensive study of social media and a review of court records, some previously unreported, we identified more than 20 Boogaloo Bois or sympathizers who’ve served in the armed forces. Over the past 18 months, 13 of them have been arrested on charges ranging from the possession of illegal automatic weapons to the manufacture of explosives to murder.
This reporting is part of a larger package that won the Polk Award for National Television Reporting (2022). This story also won an Edward R. Murrow award for Continuing Coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection (2022).
For HuffPost National, I delved into what ghost guns are (including 3-D printed ones) and how the quickly growing far-right movement in the USA is furthering their dissemination. The result is a piece about the threat of violence – including that which has already played out – and how ghost guns are a flourishing online industry, with unique photos, screengrabs, and use of embedded social media.
For FRONTLINE PBS, I monitored repatriation efforts of the 10 countries where most individuals traveled to Iraq and Syria to join ISIS. What I found was an ongoing theme of inaction and an evergrowing threat of future radicalization. The analysis piece has been used by human rights organizations, universities, think tanks, and other research institutes in further studying this urgent issue.
I was a reporter and associate producer a FRONTLINE PBS documentary in collaboration with ProPublica. We investigated the rise of extremism in America. In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, our team examined how far-right extremist groups had evolved in the wake of the deadly 2017 Charlottesville rally — and the threat they posed.
The documentary won a Polk Award for National Television Reporting (2022), became DuPont Columbia Finalist (2022), received a Peabody nomination, and is now a two-time Emmy nominated film.
I was the associate producer, line producer, and fact-checker for a FRONTLINE PBS documentary in collaboration with ProPublica. We traced the hidden sources of misinformation about the 2020 election, demonstrating how a handful of people have had an outsized impact on the current U.S. crisis of democratic legitimacy.
The documentary won a 2023 Edward R. Murrow National Award for News Documentary the 2023 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism.
The Bronx Ink (Columbia University)
While a reporter for FRONTLINE PBS, I wrote breaking, enterprise, and investigative digital pieces with a lens on government accountability on extremism, human rights, and global beats.
A freelancer, much of my work - including republished articles - can be found on my Muckrack profile.
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