Tom Meagher is the deputy managing editor. A veteran reporter and editor, he previously led an interactive team for the Digital First Media newspaper chain and was the data editor at the Newark Star-Ledger. His first reporting job was covering night cops for a small daily paper in Kansas. His reporting at The Marshall Project on crime trends won a Data Journalism Award in 2017, and his work on The Next To Die covering executions in America received the international Malofiej's first Human Rights special award in 2016.