Josiah Bates

Adjunct Instructor

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Josiah Bates is a reporter, author and journalism educator. He recently joined The Trace to cover gun violence in the Great Lakes region.  He previously worked as an enterprise reporter at TheGrio and was a staff writer for TIME Magazine. He’s written extensively about policing, gun violence, and other criminal justice topics across the country. His first book, In These Streets: Reporting from the Front Lines of Inner-City Gun Violence, was published in May 2024. He’s a graduate of Penn State University and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.