DNA Tech/Forensic Reporting

How a Niche Genealogy Site Transformed Cold Case Investigations (NYT A1)

Why This Scientist Keeps Receiving Packages of Human Hair (NYT A1)

An Ethically Fraught New Way to Solve a Murder Part 1 and 2 (NYT Daily series)

Coming Soon to a Police Station Near You: The DNA ‘Magic Box’ (NYT A1)

When a DNA Test Says You’re a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away (NYT)

Your DNA Profile is Private? A Florida Judge Just Said Otherwise (NYT)

Most White Americans' DNA Can Be Identified Through Genealogy Databases (NYT)ases

How White Nationalists Manipulate DNA Test Results (NYT)

How Police Actually Cracked the Idaho Killings Case (Slate and PBS Boston)

How Genetic Genealogy May Transform Privacy (Wisconsin Public Radio)

AI Reporting/Analysis

These are the First Actors to Sell Digital Clones of Themselvess(Slate; What’s Next TBD podcast)

They Help Artists Opt Out of AI Training Sets. Are They Heroes or Villains? (Slate)

What Happens When A.I. Tries to Prevent Crime? (Slate)

My Epic Experiment with Using AI to Date for a Friend (Slate; What’s Next TBD podcast)

AI Is Dreaming Up a Very White World (Slate)

The Pope in a Coat Is Not From a Holy Place (Slate)

The Problem with Those Trippy, Viral AI Avatars (Slate)

Travel and International Reporting

Hotels Are Failing to Install Carbon Monoxide Detectors (NYT, won Society of American Travel Writers award for the best health story)

How an Unconventional Covid Policy Drove Tourism to the DR (NYT, honored as one of Society of American Travel Writers top international stories)

How a Sudden Mask Ruling Left the CDC Reeling (NYT Daily podcast and A1 story)

14 Days with a Quarantine Tracker Wristband in Hong Kong (NYT)

How to Avoid Summer Travel Woes (The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC)

Southwest Owes Refunds. They Are Doing This Instead (Slate; What’s Next TBD podcast)

Deadly Illness in Nicaragua Baffles Experts (NYT A1; Won Front Page award)

Human Behavior/Mental Health

Picture a Leader. Is She a Woman? (NYT A1 story)

At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety (Among 20 most read NYT stories of 2019)

Fish Depression Is Not a Joke (Among most shared NYT stories of 2017)

What Experts Know About Men Who Rape (NYT, acknowledged in The Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology)

Why It Seems As If Everyone Is Always Angry With You (NYT)

Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a 'Gaydar’ Machine (NYT)

What to Do When a Loved One Is Severely Depressed (NYT)

Why High-Class People Get Away with Incompetence (NYT)

Pandemic’s Impact on Health, Housing and Beyond

Are 1,818 Airbnbs Too Many in Joshua Tree? (NYT)

What a Ban on Airbnb Means in NYC (Marketplace, What’s Next TBD podcast)

A Seaside Irish Village Adopts Matt Damon (NYT)

These are Some of the First Coronavirus Vaccine Volunteers (NYT)

How Coronavirus Can and Cannot Spread (NYT)

Hallmark Channel Pulls Zola Ads Featuring Brides Kissing (NYT, led to national protest of Hallmark Channel and resignation of parent company CEO)

Photo/Multimedia/Video

A Guide to Watching Syria’s War (NYT; video editor/producer)

The Legend of Cool Disco Dan (Full-length doc film; assistant producer)

Inside the Genius, But Asocial Elevator Brain (NPR All Things Considered; audio reporter/producer)

Behold (Slate photo blog, writer, editor, creator)