Maryam Saleh, the first investigations editor at Rest of World, has left the organization after a year.
Saleh led ambitious, newsroom-wide investigative projects and helped elevate daily coverage.
Saleh was formerly a senior editor at The Intercept, where she edited politics, features, and investigations on a range of topics ranging from Israel’s war in Gaza, to the death penalty, to environmental racism.
She previously worked as an investigative editor at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. There, she was the lead editor on a multiplatform project that exposed the proliferation of laws after the 2020 election that would increase police involvement in elections. The work was recognized with a Sidney Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting.
Before that, Saleh spent nearly five years at The Intercept as an editor and reporter covering politics, immigration, criminal justice, and global affairs. In 2019, she was part of an award-winning reporting team led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that uncovered the misuse of solitary confinement in U.S. immigration detention.
