Alec MacGillis

Alec MacGillis

Alec MacGillis

Alec MacGillis is a reporter at ProPublica, where his focus in recent years has included gun violence, economic inequality and the post-pandemic crisis in public education. He previously worked for the New Republic, Washington Post, and Baltimore Sun, among other newspapers, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, and Atlantic, among other magazines. He is the author of “Fulfillment: America in the Shadow of Amazon” (Macmillan Publishers, 2022) and “The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell” (Simon & Schuster, 2014). In 2010-11, he was Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan, and in 2021, he was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Amber Roldan

Student

Amber Roldan
Amber Roldan is in the accelerated masters program studying reporting and writing with a women and gender studies minor.

Workshops / Events

Lessons from the Field: February 24, 2027
Pulitzer Prize Winner Brian Goldstone
Introduction: Ivy Reed, senior at the Missouri School of Journalism and WWG student researcher
Lessons from the Field: January 27, 2027
Sidney Award Winner Emmanuel Felton
Introduction: Nico Berlin and Maggie LeBeau, students at the Missouri School of Journalism and WWG student researchers