Type Investigations is thrilled to announce that Maryam Saleh has joined the team as senior editor for the Springboard Project, an initiative that supports newsrooms serving historically marginalized communities in building investigative capacity.
Saleh will mentor Springboard partners in producing impactful investigations, guiding them from story inception to final edits and publication. She will also work with the Type Investigations team to develop audience-engagement and collaborative-fundraising opportunities for newsroom collaborators.
“I’m inspired by the work Type’s Springboard partners are already doing in and for their communities, and I’m thrilled that I get to work with them to strengthen their investigative chops,” Saleh said. “My hope is for the work we do together to reverberate in their newsrooms and communities for years to come.”
Saleh was most recently the inaugural investigations editor at Rest of World, a global tech newsroom, and she has also held staff roles at The Intercept and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Her final project at Rest of World was an investigation into a little-known Mexican surveillance giant with eyes on the U.S. border that was produced in partnership with Type Investigations.
Her work as a reporter and editor spans immigration, criminal justice, politics, and global affairs. As a senior editor at The Intercept, she co-led coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza and edited a range of features and investigations into the death penalty, junk science, and environmental racism.
At Reveal, Saleh was the lead editor on a project that exposed the proliferation of laws after the 2020 election that would increase police involvement in elections. The work was recognized with a Sidney Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting. In 2019, she was part of an award-winning reporting team led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that uncovered the misuse of solitary confinement in U.S. immigration detention.
Saleh has long worked to mentor and train emerging journalists through formal and informal channels. In 2024, she led a hands-on lab for an investigative journalism class at Howard University.
“We are incredibly lucky that Maryam has come on board,” said Noy Thrupkaew, director of partnerships and a reporter at Type Investigations. “She is an incredible editor who brings deep rigor, sensitivity, and dedication to supporting emerging investigative journalists.”
Type Investigations launched the Springboard Project in 2023 with inaugural newsroom partner New York Amsterdam News, providing editorial support for a project on bail reform and an award-winning investigation into the lack of mental-health funding for victims of gun violence. Type’s partnership with Gulf States Newsroom produced an investigation on the shortage of sexual-assault nurse examiners in the Gulf South, and an ongoing series on the impact of massive business projects in Louisiana – and the non-disclosure agreements lawmakers are using to cloak their development. This year, thanks to a major investment by Press Forward, a national initiative to revitalize local news, Type Investigations is expanding the Springboard Project to bring on India Currents, Puente News Collaborative, and South Side Weekly as new partners.