Senior Reporter, ProPublica
Holtzbrinck Fellow - Marcus Bierich Distinguished Visitor - Class of Fall 2021
Alec MacGillis is a senior reporter for ProPublica. MacGillis previously reported for The New Republic, The Washington Post, and the Baltimore Sun. He won the 2016 Robin Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, the 2017 Polk Award for National Reporting, and the 2017 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic, New York Times, Harper’s, and New York Times Magazine, among other publications. A resident of Baltimore, MacGillis is the author of The Cynic, a 2014 biography of Senator Mitch McConnell, and the forthcoming Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America.
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May
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ONLINE: Marcus Bierich Lecture
FULFILLMENT: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
Alec MacGillis is taking a closer look at one of the driving forces of regional inequality in the US: Amazon.
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Holtzbrinck Lecture
Tapped Out: What Do We Owe the World’s Coal Regions?
ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis asks what politics in the age of decarbonization should do about the communities reliant on coal.
09
Nov
21
Fellow Spotlight: Alec MacGillis
Alec MacGillis is a senior reporter for ProPublica. During his stay at the Academy, he pursues the question of what we owe the world’s coal regions. ...
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May
21
FULFILLMENT: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
The country is growing increasingly divided between a handful of hyper-prosperous cities, mostly on the coasts, and countless left-behind cities and towns. Regional inequality helped give rise to Donald Trump and is making different parts of the country incomprehensible to each other. It’s not ...
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Dec
21
Tapped Out: What Do We Owe the World’s Coal Regions?
For two centuries, coal has powered modernity — our railroads, our steel mills, our laptops. The people of coal regions have delivered grueling, high-risk labor while watching their landscapes be transformed by mountaintop removal, open-pit mining, and a panoply of toxic waste problems. In exchang ...