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Brad Hamilton runs an award-winning digital newsroom, The Hatch Institute, which commissions long-form enterprise pieces and publishes them with big media partners. The institute also mentors and supports other journalists.

Hamilton has been a reporter and editor, primarily in investigative work, for 40 years, during which he created and led the New York Post's first investigations unit and broke numerous front-page exclusives. His work has appeared in The New York Times, ABC News, the Los Angeles Times, Harper's, the Guardian, Playboy, the Village Voice and other outlets.

In addition, he heads the Institute for Storycraft and Information Gathering, a nonprofit foundation that provides writing and reporting guidance for campus journalists and other college students.