Selected investigations, features and dispatches.
Associated Press / Howard Center, 2020
Lead writer on a Howard Center investigation into shootings by federal Homeland Security agents, built from police records, 911 audio and independent ballistics analysis that contradicted the official account. It ran on the AP wire, was picked up by the New York Times and Washington Post and won an IRE Award.
Renting an Apartment on FaceTime
The Wall Street Journal, 2020
A front-page feature on renters who leased apartments sight-unseen during the pandemic, and the distance between thevideo tour and the place itself.
The Star-Ledger, 2023
How a Prohibition-era licensing system and million-dollar liquor licenses decide who gets to open a restaurant in New Jersey.
A cruise ship’s frenetic ‘turnaround day’
The Seattle Times, 2018
The few hours between voyages on a 2,100-passenger ship, when 856 crew clean, restock and reload before it sails again.
Corporate giants in line for big tax breaks
The Star-Ledger, 2023
A read of a fast-tracked tax bill and the obscure provision that would hand the largest multinationals an advantage over small New Jersey businesses.
Murphy vowed to cut N.J.’s Russia ties
The Star-Ledger, 2022
Why New Jersey’s pledge to pull its pension fund out of Russia after the invasion of Ukraine stalled, and how secretive private-equity and hedge-fund holdings made the money nearly impossible to trace.
Pedestrians die every 90 minutes
Los Angeles Times / Howard Center, 2019
An investigation into why pedestrian deaths fall hardest on the poorest neighborhoods, and how road design drives the toll.
Cherries, apples, wheat: the U.S.-China trade war
The Seattle Times, 2018
How the first salvos of a U.S.-China trade war landed on Washington’s cherry, apple and wheat growers, caught between the two largest economies in the world.
Trump media circus invades lower Manhattan
The Star-Ledger, 2023
A street-level dispatch from the day of Trump’s arraignment, told through the hot-dog vendor, the tourists and the New Yorkers trying to get to work around it.
A skatepark visionary is mourned
The Seattle Times, 2018
How the Seattle skatepark company Grindline carries on after the death of its founder, Mark Hubbard, who built it on a vow to make skateparks free.