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The Overseen

Investigating surveillance, data and automated systems, and the people on the other end of them.

Ellen Brennock

Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, New York

Ellen Brennock founded The Overseen in 2022 with Stephen Garrow and has edited it since. She spent fourteen years as a reporter and editor at metropolitan dailies in Ohio and New York, most recently running an investigations desk that covered policing and the courts.

She edits every investigation before publication and chairs the weekly meeting at which the newsroom decides what to pursue.

At The Overseen since (4 years).

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