Malachy Browne co-founded the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times, where he runs and reports projects as its enterprise director.
Founded in 2017, Visual Investigations is a pioneering form of journalism that combines traditional reporting with the analysis of visual evidence to find truth, hold the powerful to account and deconstruct important news events. The reporting often involves digital sleuthing, collecting and analyzing troves of video and audio, satellite images and other data, and creating 3-D reconstructions of crime scenes.
In 2023, Mr. Browne reported on the leaking of sensitive Pentagon documents to social media platforms popular with computer gamers. He was part of a team that received a Pulitzer Prize in 2023 for coverage of the Ukraine war, including an investigative film he produced that named the Russian unit and commander responsible for killing dozens of civilians in Bucha. He was also on the team awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for exposing Russian culpability in crimes around the world, including the bombing of hospitals in Syria.
Mr. Brown co-directed “Day of Rage,” a documentary capturing in vivid detail what happened during the U.S. Capitol riot. He has led investigations into the killing of Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans by police, the Las Vegas mass shooting, chemical weapons attacks in Syria, extra-judicial military shootings in Nigeria, the Saudi officials who killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and the killing of a young Palestinian medic along the Gaza-Israel border.
This teamwork has been cited in murder trials, congressional hearings and U.N. Security Council meetings. It has triggered policing reforms and several government inquiries.
Prior to joining The Times in 2016, Mr. Browne worked as a reporter and editor at Storyful and Reported.ly, two social journalism startups; at Village, a current affairs magazine in Ireland; and as a computer programmer. He earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering at University College Dublin and his master’s in international relations at the University of Limerick. He grew up in Broadford, County Limerick, in Ireland.
Satellite images and videos offer an early glimpse of the devastation in southern Lebanon a week after Israeli ground troops moved in to confront Hezbollah militants.
By Lauren Leatherby, Malachy Browne, Josh Holder and Euan Ward
This was featured in live coverage.
By Malachy Browne and Natan Odenheimer
An overnight barrage included around 150 rockets, cruise missiles and drones, Israel’s military said. Air defenses intercepted most, but the town of Kiryat Bialik suffered a direct hit.
By Sanjana Varghese and Malachy Browne
The Israeli airstrike, which the military said targeted Hamas militants, appeared to use 2,000-pound bombs, which Israel has been criticized for using in heavily populated areas.
By Rawan Sheikh Ahmad, Ephrat Livni, Sanjana Varghese and Thomas Fuller
The large size of the two craters left in the aftermath of the attack suggest that Israel used the powerful bombs, according to experts and a New York Times analysis.
By Sanjana Varghese, Malachy Browne and Lauren Leatherby
Inmates at the overcrowded Makala prison had sought to escape their suffocating cells after water and power went out. At least 129 were killed, some two dozen of them shot dead, the government said.
By Elian Peltier, Sanjana Varghese and Malachy Browne
The revolt is the latest in a series of terrorist attacks in Russia claimed by Islamic militants.
By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Oleg Matsnev
The fall of Sudzha, about six miles from the border, would be Ukraine’s first capture of a Russian town since its troops crossed into Russian territory 10 days ago.
By Constant Méheut
Text messages, obtained exclusively by The Times, indicate that some law enforcement officers were aware of Thomas Crooks earlier than previously known. And he was aware of them.
By Haley Willis, Aric Toler, David A. Fahrenthold and Adam Goldman
An absence of medical records or official accounts has stirred confusion, but a Times video and trajectory analysis indicates a bullet, not debris, wounded the former president.
By Malachy Browne, Devon Lum and Alexander Cardia