Adiel Kaplan is an investigative journalist and educator, with a focus on incorporating data into the investigative reporting process. As a reporter and editor, she has covered topics ranging from climate change to criminal justice, healthcare, and labor in print and for television.
She has worked on local, national, and international stories for NBC News, the Miami Herald, InvestigateWest, and other news outlets, and participated in collaborations through the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Pulitzer Center. Her work has earned awards and had impact, spurring legislative change at the state and national level. She teaches investigative reporting for the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and the Data Program at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
As a researcher, Adiel's work focuses on how the past and present of journalism can shape the future of public interest information. She is working with Columbia's Incite Institute on an oral history of the global spread of investigative journalism over the past 50 years, and serves as program director for the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
