Damaso Reyes

Damaso Reyes is the executive and investigative editor of the New York Amsterdam News and the founding editor of its Blacklight investigative unit, the first of its kind at a legacy Black newspaper. He has been published by: The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, Der Spiegel, the Miami Herald, and The Irish Times. Previous assignments and projects have taken him to several countries, including Rwanda, Iraq, Indonesia, Tanzania, and throughout the United States and Europe. He was a 2009 Fulbright specialist and is the recipient of several awards and grants including the 2024 Ida B. Wells award from the National Association of Black Journalists; a 2024 Deadline Club award; Arthur F. Burns and Holbrooke Fellowships from the International Center for Journalists; a Knight-Luce Fellowship from the USC Annenberg School of Journalism; and grants from the Solutions Journalism Network and the Fund for Investigative Journalism.