Josiah Bates

Josiah is The Trace's reporter covering the Great Lakes region. He previously worked as an enterprise reporter at TheGrio and was a staff writer for TIME Magazine, and has written extensively about policing, gun violence, and other criminal justice topics across the country. His first book, In These Streets: Reporting from the Front Lines of Inner-City Gun Violence, was published in May 2024. He's a graduate of Penn State University and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.