ProPublica has hired three talented reporters to join its expanding Washington newsroom. These journalists have years of experience covering complicated issues and secretive agencies. They’ve reported on political extremism, foreign policy, cyber and national security, and Big Tech’s growing influence in our government and lives.
“ProPublica’s successful record of accountability reporting makes us uniquely prepared to cover the enormous changes ahead in Washington in a way that will make clear who’s benefiting and who’s being harmed,” Managing Editor Ginger Thompson said. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to add three new powerhouse players to our team.”
The new reporters, who will join ProPublica’s Washington bureau in December, are:
Hannah Allam, a national security reporter with The Washington Post. At the Post, Allam launched a new beat covering violent extremism. In advance of the 2024 election, she joined the Post’s democracy team, where she wrote about threats and political violence.
Before joining the Post in 2021, Allam worked at NPR, where she created the network’s extremism beat, and at BuzzFeed News, where she was a national reporter. She was previously a foreign correspondent at McClatchy, serving as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq War and in Cairo during the Arab Spring rebellions.
Allam was part of two Post teams awarded the Pulitzer Prize. One was for a project reconstructing the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack and the other for a series exploring the lethality of the AR-15. She is a journalism graduate of the University of Oklahoma and was a 2009 Nieman fellow at Harvard.
Christopher Bing, a cybersecurity and intelligence reporter for Reuters in Washington who has explored how digital espionage impacts national security and foreign affairs.
Bing joined Reuters in 2018 and became team leader for its cyber investigations unit in 2022. His past work exposed how former National Security Agency operatives joined a secretive hacking team overseas and how Indian hackers compromised legal cases across the globe. His stories earned recognition from the National Press Club, Deadline Club and Gerald R. Ford Foundation.
Before joining Reuters, Bing worked for CyberScoop, a trade publication focused on government technology news. A graduate of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, he earned a master’s degree in cybersecurity and intelligence from Johns Hopkins University this past May.
Avi Asher-Schapiro, a tech correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Los Angeles. He anchored the foundation’s global tech coverage, leading investigations on multiple continents into major platforms from Amazon to Facebook to Uber.
Before joining the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Asher-Schapiro was a tech correspondent for the Committee to Protect Journalists and a staff writer at International Business Times and VICE News. As a freelance journalist, he wrote for outlets including Harper’s Magazine.
Asher-Schapiro graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and earned a master’s degree in journalism and Middle East studies from NYU. He is a former Fulbright research fellow in Cairo.
“Hannah, Chris and Avi are deeply thoughtful journalists with an eye on big picture stories,” said Ronnie Greene, a ProPublica senior editor in Washington. “At a time when the country’s center of power needs deeply reported, fact-driven journalism, they are a perfect fit for ProPublica’s DC mission.”
