Investigative Post adds a reporter

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Adam Smith-Perez has joined the reporting staff of Investigative Post.

Smith-Perez, 33, is bilingual and will share reporting duties with I’Jaz Ja’ciel on Investigative Post’s urban affairs team, with a concentration on criminal justice.

“I’m impressed with Adam’s energy and keen interest in social justice,” said Investigative Post Editor Jim Heaney.

Smith-Perez comes to Investigative Post via Report For America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. The program underwrites a portion of reporter salaries and provides training opportunities. 

Investigative Post is one of 101 newsrooms participating in the program this coming year. Founded in 2017, Report For America has placed 758 journalists in 429 newsrooms.

Smith-Perez grew up in Boston and was active in youth theater. In high school he attended the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio at the University of Iowa. He is a graduate of Skidmore College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. 

His focus as a journalist has included fact-checking and podcast production. His reporting has appeared in The Nation, Vice News and Aperture. He’s also had  affiliations with Mother Jones, The Food & Environment Reporting Network, and Noema Magazine. 

He continues to produce The Nation Podcast with editor D.D. Guttenplan, and The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer. 

“I’ve wanted to break into investigative reporting since before graduate school, and the opportunity to hold the powerful to account in my mom’s hometown really appeals to me,” Smith-Perez said. 

His Twitter handle is @adamsmithperez, his email address is asmithperez@investigativepost.org.