Nolan Hicks Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, United States

Nyu Engineering School

Developing infrastructure design, economic and legal/regulatory frameworks to maximize speeds and throughput on current US commuter and intercity rail services.

- Author a bi-weekly column for NYMag's Curbed section that examines the intersection between politics, governance and pressing urban needs, particularly our transit systems and the MTA.- I've also contributed to Streetsblog and Vital City

Greater New York City Area

- Enterprise-focused coverage of the transit, housing and social services beats, while making daily contributions to coverage of City Hall and Albany - Investigation on Second Ave Subway station designs for East Harlem extension forced an MTA review that found $300 million in savings (and counting) - Revealed ballooning size of $16.8 billion Penn Station expansion — and how politics is blocking cheaper fixes; - Built database that definitively proved Housing Authority and Health Department left lead-poisoned children in toxic apartments, getting their apartments repaired or the families moved into safe housing - Anchored pace-setting coverage of COVID and MPOX vaccine rollouts in NYC, including groundbreaking examinations of availability and repeated computer registration system breakdowns

Austin, Texas Area

Researcher, reporter for joint Buzzfeed/The Trace investigation

Austin, Texas Area

- Executed aggressive enterprise while contributing to the paper’s daily coverage of politics and criminal justice - Anchored coverage of Hurricane Harvey as paper’s Houston correspondent, Uber and City Council elections, Austinite’s murder in Greece and the fatal stabbing attack on the University of Texas campus - Exposed how a non-profit co-founded by a City Hall insider landed $1 million in no-bid city work, leading to eventual federal charges and a guilty plea. - Also authored stories that revealed how city brass overruled frontline engineers on a major housing project, systemic problems with how Austin Police Dept's statistics unit operated and the legal travails of a major Texas Department of Transportation contractor.

Greater New York City Area

- Contributed to The Trace, an investigative news non-profit focused on covering gun violence in the U.S. - Rewrite at The New York Post — directed runners, worked with editors and photographers, took feeds from the field and wires to write stories for online and print

Greater New York City Area

I was a reporter on The News'​ data and projects team, where I worked with on major investigations, helped beat reporters integrate data into their daily and Sunday stories, and built the newsroom's data library. Investigations included: - An examination of 179 on-duty NYPD officer-involved homicides that found that only three cases were prosecuted, resulting in just one conviction. The story placed second for “Depth Reporting” in the NY State AP Awards and was part of The News'​ first place “Continuing Coverage” entry for coverage of Garner's death. - Examined subsequent efforts to reform how such investigations and prosecutions are conducted. - A five-day series that highlighted and exposed inequity in city schools, which placed first in the New York State AP's 2016 'Depth Reporting' reporting category. - Geospatially analyzed (QGIS/PostGres) NYPD crash data to see what impact Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero policies had on the streets where they were first rolled out. - Used Taxi and Limousine Commission data to examine how much Uber and other ride sharing businesses are costing the city's yellow cabs.

San Antonio, Texas Area

I covered various aspects of state and local government for more than three years as a reporter at the San Antonio Express-News. While there I wrote about the census and demographics, the state's ongoing (and seemingly never-ending) redistricting and Voter ID litigation; covered county government, San Antonio's two massive city-owned electric and water utilities and, finally, state government and politics -- with a focus on enterprise stories. I also assisted the newsroom on data-driven projects and investigations, and helped develop interactives for the web. I left the Express-News to take a position on the New York Daily News' projects team. While at the Express-News:- Introduced data reporting and interactive tools like PANDA and ProPublica's TimelineSetter to the newsroom. - Led the effort to get more of the E-N's newsroom on DocumentCloud. - Regularly used SQL, Excel, Fusion Tables, OpenRefine and DocumentCloud. - Helped launch 'Perry Presidential,' Hearst's blog covering the Rick Perry's 2012 bid for the White House. In addition to my reporting duties, I served as the blog's first producer.

Austin Bureau

From January to May, I was an intern for the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News in their shared Austin bureau. I was hired by the Express-News in May, starting in July. The Houston Chronicle kept me on as a freelancer through June to cover the first and only special session of the 82nd Legislature. While at the bureau: - I set up the bureau's Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr pages. - Used social media tools like Storify to help cover floor debates at the Capitol and to break down and explain complicated issues. - Launched recurring blog series called 'Explainer,' which sought to add more detail and policy context to political debates. - Created and wrote 'The First Word,' the bureau's morning political newsletter. - Covered the 82nd Legislative session and wrote about 'guns on campus,' TWIA overhaul, transportation and social issues.

Over the course of four years (though I didn't work there every semester), I held a variety of positions at The Daily Texan, the University of Texas' student run newspaper, including: Senior Reporter: State Gov/Politics; Wire Editor; Copy Editor; GA reporter/Cops reporter.