Talia Buford
Talia Buford is an assistant managing editor with ProPublica. She joined ProPublica in 2017 starting as a reporter and thereafter as ProPublica’s talent development director.
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Talia Buford is an assistant managing editor with ProPublica. She joined ProPublica in 2017 as a reporter, covering disparities in environmental impacts. She also served in the role of talent development director at ProPublica. Previously, she was an environment and labor reporter at The Center for Public Integrity, where her work focused mostly on wage theft and the Environmental Protection Agency’s lackluster enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. She also covered energy for POLITICO Pro and started her career covering municipal and legal affairs at The Providence (R.I.) Journal. She earned a master’s degree in the study of law from Georgetown University Law Center and a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from Hampton University.
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