Dan Vock Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Covered infrastructure, transportation and politics for professionals in state and local government around the country.

• Report on major developments affecting Illinois politics and the economy. Provide analysis based on extensive experience with Illinois state government.
• Interviewed key policymakers including the state attorney general, the president of the state Senate and the governor.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Write timely, lively and informative stories for various media outlets including Politico, Crain's Chicago Business, MotherJones, CQ Researcher, Route Fifty, Education Dive, Planning Magazine, States Newsroom, NPR.
• Received a grant from the Columbia Journalism School’s Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights to write an investigative piece for MotherJones. The story looked at how the proliferation of data.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Covered transportation, infrastructure and politics for a well-regarded magazine focused on states and local governments. (Governing was a four-time finalist in the National Magazine Awards.) Wrote 47 magazine-length.
• Led a four-person team in researching and reporting a detailed investigation into local governments’ role in creating and maintaining racial segregation in small Illinois cities. The “Segregated in the Heartland”.
• Won the 2017 Jesse H. Neal award for best profile for a feature on Alabama’s pension chief, called “The Most Powerful Man in Alabama.”

Washington, DC

• Developed reputation for trustworthy, insightful and fresh stories on my beats, especially transportation and immigration. Previous beats included health care, energy, environment and politics.
• Conceived and led a major project on state fiscal conditions during the Great Recession called “Beyond California: States in Fiscal Peril,” which was reported on by more than 800 media outlets.
• Analyzed public opinion on budget issues and the underlying fiscal challenges for a five-state report that Pew produced, in partnership with the Public Policy Institute of California, called “Facing Facts.” Moderator.

• Covered the Illinois congressional delegation and national developments that affect Illinois.

* Covered Republican and Democratic governors, the state legislature and the Illinois Supreme Court for Chicago's primary legal affairs newspaper.* Provided authoritative coverage, even when competing against national media outlets. * Developed a first-of-its-kind database of how judges voted in high court decisions. Supplemented data analyses with.

Master Of Arts, Public Affairs Reporting

Bachelor Of Arts, English And German