Zak Cassel

Zak Cassel

Zak Cassel is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School’s Stabile investigative program. Since graduating in 2020, he has contributed to The Intercept, Montana Free Press and the New York Times’s coronavirus tracking project, where he focused on nursing home clusters. Zak’s work seeks to examine complex institutional breakdowns, harm and neglect by combining public records, data and human stories.