iPost adds reporter via NY Times

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Investigative Post has added a third full-time reporter to its award-winning staff.

Daniela Porat joins the staff after a seven-month stint at The New York Times, where she worked with the newspaper’s investigative and computer assisted reporting teams. Her reporting there included a front page story on gun violence in America.

Prior to The Times, she worked as a researcher with Vice HBO. Her reporting has also been published by ProPublica and The Miami Herald.

Porat, 27, is a bilingual native of Venezuela who grew up in Toronto. She graduated in 2015 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She earned her undergraduate degree in political science and art history from McGill University in Montreal.

“Daniela came highly recommended by The Times,” said Jim Heaney, editor of Investigative Post. “Her considerable skills will enable us to expand our coverage in some key areas, including criminal justice.”

Porat said she was “drawn to Investigative Post because of its commitment to watchdog journalism. That’s rare in the current media landscape, which tends to be focused on quick hits and talking heads.”

She joins a staff that includes Charlotte Keith, another Columbia Journalism School graduate, and environmental reporter Dan Telvock.

Keith’s reporting was recently recognized by the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists and her reporting on lack of diversity in the local construction trades was honored by the New York Association of Black Journalists.

Telvock’s reporting has been cited for excellence by the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association and Investigative Reporters & Editors.

Investigative Post is a nonprofit investigative reporting center based in Buffalo. It distributes its work through its website and WGRZ, the NBC affiliate for Buffalo; WBFO, the region’s NPR outlet; and The Public, an alternative newsweekly. Investigative Post has working relationships with a number of other news organizations, including The Capitol Pressroom, ProPublica and the Niagara Gazette.