The Marshall Mission is pleased to announce that Aaron Sankin is becoming a member of the group as our new Deputy Information Editor.
Sankin has a ardour for bold, team-based investigations combining rigorous information evaluation and statistical strategies with in-depth reporting. He’ll carry these expertise to reporting on the U.S. legal justice system, supporting the work of knowledge crew members Ilica Mahajan and Geoff Hing, and dealing carefully with Information Editor David Eads.
Previous to becoming a member of The Marshall Mission, Sankin was an investigative reporter for The Markup, the place he received the Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting on predictive policing, the Investigative Reporters & Editors Philip Meyer Award for an investigation into racial and socioeconomic disparities in web service pricing, and the Gerald Loeb Award for an modern on-line privateness inspection instrument.
Sankin has a protracted historical past as a reporter and editor. He was a founding editor of Huffington Submit’s San Francisco vertical and a senior employees author for The Every day Dot, the place he coated the intersection of on-line communities and expertise coverage. As a reporter on the Middle for Investigative Reporting, Sankin experimented with new methods of masking the rising risks of on-line extremism, launching a weekly e-newsletter and a citizen journalism initiative on the subject.
“One of many information crew’s sayings is ‘no solo bylines’ as a result of we imagine right this moment’s journalism is pushed by groups of reporters with numerous expertise,” stated David Eads. “From working neighborhood information tasks to utilizing computational strategies to see the massive image, Aaron’s expertise reveals the identical bold, collaborative spirit that we aspire to and might be vital in masking one of many hardest information beats on the market.”
“The legal justice system dramatically impacts the lives of so many People each single day and but, in some ways, its inside workings stay inscrutable,” stated Sankin. “I’m thrilled to be becoming a member of the extraordinarily gifted crew of journalists at The Marshall Mission, who’re working tirelessly to shine a lightweight into its darkest corners.”
“Aaron’s observe file of meticulous, high-impact journalism is strictly what we try for right here,” stated Geraldine Sealey, managing editor of The Marshall Mission. “We’re so delighted that Aaron is becoming a member of our crew.”
Sankin lives in New York and begins August nineteenth.
