Samantha Storey
Samantha manages the editorial calendar for The Trace, guiding a steady flow of news stories, shorter features, and explainers and overseeing our work with data. Samantha spent more than half of her career at The New York Times, where she worked as an assignment editor across several desks; she served as the lead audio reporter on “An Imam In America,” which won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Prior to The Trace, she worked as an executive producer and podcast host at Bloomberg, where she won a Gerald Loeb Award in audio for “In Trust” and received a Webby award nomination for “Bedrock, USA.” She also spent more than five years as a senior enterprise editor at HuffPost, where she oversaw reporting on social inequality, and led investigations into hate crimes, domestic violence, and school policing. Samantha’s first job in journalism was at the Seattle Weekly; she was one of the first editors to help put out the paper on the Internet. Samantha holds a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Boston College.