Portfolio | Trisha Ahmed

Collaborative Investigations

COVID-19 protections not offered to migrant seafood workers (The Associated Press)

I wrote this story and helped lead reporting efforts. Story link here | PDF version here

In public housing, a small debt can get poor tenants evicted (The Associated Press)

I led Maryland reporting and worked with 15 reporters. Story link here | PDF version here

“I didn’t feel wanted by student media”: Few Black and Latinx students are editors of top college newspapers (Nieman Lab)

I led fact checking and contributed data reporting, along with traditional reporting. Story link here | PDF version here

Confusion over eviction ban led to selective enforcement (The Washington Post)

I reported on Florida courts, landlords and tenants. Story link here | PDF version here

Printing Hate: How white-owned newspapers incited racial terror in America (Capital News Service)

I found, cleaned, organized and analyzed the data backbone of this investigation.

We won an IRE (Investigative Reporters & Editors) medal and award for this project! Story link here

Solo Enterprise Stories

Day of the Dead celebrations in Maryland honor COVID-19 victims (Capital News Service)

Maryland does not display Native American COVID-19 data (The Associated Press)

COVID-19 disparities masked among Asian Americans (Baltimore Fishbowl)

Data visualizations - click on each image to see the full visualization

Statehouse Reporting

Billing questions plague health providers in Maryland (The Capital Gazette)

Legal sports betting further delayed in Maryland (The Frederick News-Post)

Maryland labor secretary hears unemployment app concerns (citybiz)

Beat Reporting

UMD grad students still at odds with administration in fight for collective bargaining (The Diamondback)

Graduate Student Government at UMD votes in favor of proposal to consolidate student fees (The Diamondback)

Ukrainian and Russian graduate students at UMD reflect on ongoing war (The Diamondback)

Op-Eds

My stepfather was murdered by machete six years ago. Here’s what I would say to him today (The Baltimore Sun)

Murdered blogger’s stepdaughter: Dad taught me to be informed, bold, unafraid (CNN)