my latest, with Olivia Ruth Messer 🗞️, a year+ in the making: Leaders in the Texas Senate have created a system in which lawmakers who sexually harass employees, interns, and students—a state crime—are seldom held accountable, and the public is left in the dark. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

Three teens went missing on the outskirts of Indianapolis in 1975, only to be found in the dead of night, their bodies slashed. Marisa Kwiatkowski's poignant narrative retraces the horrific ordeal suffered by the three women. IndyStar USA TODAY bit.ly/4cWUR4C

It's been a whirlwind 2024! Now that I have a second to take a breath, I want to share some wonderful things I've had a chance to be part of this year. A 🧵, sort of.

For a few months, I also helped edit some terrific work from the journalists at Mirror Indy. There were too many great stories to pick links to share. They have such a talented crew.

In the midst of all that, Mykal McEldowney and I published a four-part series following three women's 50-year quest for answers. Here is part one: usatoday.com/story/news/inv…

And I taught an introduction to news reporting class as a visiting professor for Berkeley Journalism. It was an incredible opportunity to interact with students, including some who plan to pursue journalism as a career. Their final projects were great. I can't wait to see what they do next.

New w/Hayleigh Colombo: Mayor Joe Hogsett's deputy targeted younger women who worked under him, showering them with praise, poetry and gifts and promising career growth as he pressured them toward intimacy and unwanted sexual encounters, three women say. indystar.com/story/news/inv…

For at least 3 years, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department secretly investigated — and ultimately urged the state attorney general to prosecute — a L.A. Times reporter who wrote about a leaked list of problem deputies, according to internal records. latimes.com/california/sto…

Life update: Today is the start of a new adventure. It's my first day as a director of journalism for Knight Foundation. I am thrilled to join an amazing team and support the industry I love in a new way.

Big news from Knight Foundation in hiring a new director of journalism Marisa Kwiatkowski, a longtime investigative journalist and nonprofit board leader. Hear more from Jim Brady in the lastest News @ Knight newsletter! /1 newsatknight.substack.com/p/knight-hires…

I'm thrilled, too!

The Lexington Herald-Leader is continuing to dig into this story first broken by the London Times involving former KY Gov Matt Bevin. I'm an editor who's also an adoptee w/special interest in these accusations. Stay tuned for updates. kentucky.com/news/state/ken…

Print newspapers are back in Martinsville, Indiana. One editor took the fight to a local ghost newspaper - and used paper and ink to win. Read for Indiana Daily Student. specials.idsnews.com/ghost-newspape…