Tom Meagher is a senior editor. A veteran journalist, he joined The Marshall Project at its founding in 2014. Stories he edited at The Marshall Project have been honored with a National Magazine Award, two national Edward R. Murrow awards and more. As a reporter, his work has won an RFK Journalism Award, a Data Journalism Award from the Global Editors Network and the first human rights special award from Malofiej, honoring news graphics from around the world. He previously led an interactive team for the Digital First Media newspaper chain and was the data editor at the Newark Star-Ledger. He got his start in journalism covering night cops for a small daily paper in Kansas.