Mallory Newman

Background

About Mallory Newman

Mallory Newman is a journalist focused on investigative reporting. Her areas of interest include food security, police, politics and equality. Most recently, she was an Associate Producer and Investigative Reporter for an international feature-length documentary on food security, national security and land grabs titled The Grab which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2022. Prior to that, she was a traveling videographer on the 2020 presidential campaign cycle and traveled the country filming, producing and editing rapid response videos. Her work has been published at PBS NewsHour, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, Mission Local and Task & Purpose. In 2018, her work contributed to a Society of Professional Journalists Award for ongoing police coverage. Prior to journalism, Mallory worked as a federal government contractor in logistics as well as a canvass director for non-profits. From 2007 to 2014, she was enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve and deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to Afghanistan in 2011. She is an alumni of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and San Francisco State University where she earned a B.A. in International Relations and wrote for the department's news website on veterans affairs. She is also an alumni of The Washington Center where she interned with the Department of Defense in 2010.