Malachy Browne is a senior story producer on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times. He was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for international reporting for coverage of Russian culpability in crimes around the world, including the bombing of hospitals in Syria.
Founded in 2017, the Visual Investigations team is pioneering a new form of explanatory and accountability journalism. It combines traditional reporting with advanced digital forensics that may include collecting and analyzing cell phone videos, satellite pictures and other media, and 3-D reconstructions of crime scenes.
Mr. Brown co-directed “Day of Rage,” a documentary capturing in vivid detail what happened during the U.S. Capitol riot. He has led investigations into the killing of Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans by police, Russian airstrikes on hospitals in Syria, the Las Vegas mass shooting, chemical weapons attacks in Syria, extra-judicial military shootings in Nigeria, the Saudi officials who killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, and the killing of a young Palestinian medic along the Gaza-Israel border.
This teamwork has received several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, four News and Documentary Emmys, a George Polk Award, three Overseas Press Club of America Awards, the Scripps Howard Impact Award, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and a Pulitzer finalist citation (2017).
Prior to joining The Times in 2016, Mr. Browne worked as a reporter and editor at Storyful and Reported.ly, two social journalism startups; at Village, a current affairs magazine in Ireland; and as a computer programmer.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering at University College Dublin and his master’s in international relations at the University of Limerick. He grew up in Broadford, County Limerick, in Ireland.
