About | Mallory Newman

Mallory Newman is an Emmy award winning journalist focused on investigative reporting. Her areas of interest include police, politics and equality. Most recently, she was an Associate Producer and Investigative Reporter for the international feature-length documentary called The Grab. The film looks at food security, national security and land grabs and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2022. In 2025, the film earned on Emmy for oustanding research and it is currently available to watch on Hulu.

Acting as Co-Producer, Mallory is working on a documentary called Forty One, that follows the historic first group of women to go through bootcamp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. During the 2020 presidential campaign cycle, she was a traveling videographer where she spent nine months on the road filming, producing and editing rapid response videos for millions of viewers on social media and television ads.

Her work has been published at PBS NewsHour, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, Mission Local and Task & Purpose. In 2018, her work contributed to a Society of Professional Journalists Award for ongoing police coverage at Mission Local.

Prior to journalism, Mallory worked as a federal government contractor in logistics as well as a canvass director for non-profits. From 2007 to 2014, she was enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve and deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to Afghanistan in 2011.

She is an alumni of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and San Francisco State University where she earned a B.A. in International Relations and wrote for the department's news website on veterans affairs. She is also an alumni of The Washington Center where she interned with the Department of Defense in 2010.