Brad Heath
Reporter at Reuters
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Heath is an investigative reporter in Washington with 12+ years exposing wrongdoing across policing, federal prosecution and public health, currently covering crime, justice and national security for Reuters. His work at USA TODAY and elsewhere has freed at least 35 people from federal prison, prompted major policy responses—including a Justice Department effort on attorney misconduct—and spurred nationwide environmental testing around schools. A former Justice and Investigations Editor, he combines hands-on investigative reporting with team leadership and deep expertise in data-driven, records-based journalism. Trained as a lawyer (Georgetown Law) and a member of the Virginia bar, he brings legal acumen to complex accountability reporting. Based in Washington, D.C., he regularly mines databases and court records to translate technical findings into impactful, public-facing stories.
12 years of coding experience
J.D., Law, J.D., Law at Georgetown LawBS, Political Science, BS, Political Science at Colgate University
Github Skills (4)
code-behind9
twitter9
tor8
python7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bdheath/pytor
Apr 2014 - Aug 2017
Python wrapper for scraping over the Tor network
Contributions:19 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 4 months
pythontor
bdheath/Big-Cases
Mar 2017 - Sep 2019
The basic code behind the @big_cases Twitter bot
Contributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 6 months
code-behindtwitter
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