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Portfolio · Investigative Journalism

Marcus Veil

War. Policy. Power.

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ATLANTIC·Investigation·2024·28 min read

The Ceasefire That Wasn't

Fourteen months inside a collapsing peace deal — how back-channel negotiations fell apart in real time, and who stood to gain from the wreckage.

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NYT MAG·Executive Profile·2024·22 min read

The Board That Ran a Country

Inside the 90-day boardroom coup that transferred effective control of a nation's largest utility to a private equity consortium — without a single public vote.

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PROPUBLICA·Documentary Series·2023·34 min read

Ballot Season

A six-week dispatch from three swing precincts — the poll workers, the challengers, and the quiet machinery of democratic erosion playing out beneath the headlines.

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WIRED·Long-Form Feature·2023·19 min read

The Architects of Silence

How a loose network of PR firms, think-tanks, and media consultants built an infrastructure for burying inconvenient science — and the scientists who mapped it.

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Beats & Expertise

A career built at the intersection of inconvenient truths.

14Years reporting
33+Long-form investigations
4Press freedom awards
6Documentary series

12 investigations

Conflict & War

Embedded reporting from active theaters. Three conflict zones, two Pulitzer-nominated dispatches.

9 long-form pieces

Power & Policy

Legislative process, executive decision-making, and the gap between what is said and what is done.

7 investigations

Corporate Accountability

Following money through boardrooms, shell companies, and the PR firms hired to obscure both.

5 documentary series

Election & Democracy

Ground-level reporting on electoral systems, voter access, and the infrastructure of legitimacy.

The kind of reporter who doesn't just find the story — he finds the story inside the story, then waits long enough for the third version to surface.

Elena Marchetti — Executive Editor, The Atlantic
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"Marcus handed us a 9,000-word investigation with 47 named sources, zero legal flags, and a narrative architecture that made the editorial team go quiet for three minutes. That's rare."

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Elena Marchetti

Executive Editor · The Atlantic

"We brought him in for a six-part documentary series and he came back with eight. Every extra episode justified itself in the footage. He doesn't stop at the story — he goes to the next room."

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David Osei-Mensah

Senior Documentary Producer · Frontline / PBS

"For a CEO profile that could have ended careers, Marcus gave us something stranger and better — a portrait of a man who believed every word of his own myth. Devastating and fair."

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Priya Raghunathan

Managing Editor · Wired

Recognition

4× IRE Award finalist · 2× Online Journalism Award · Livingston Award, 2022

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