Brenna Smith was a 2021-2022 Visual Investigations Fellow with the New York Times video team. In 2022, she was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on fatal traffic stops by police.
Prior to joining The Times, she worked as a news editor at UC Berkeley's The Daily Californian and as an open-source researcher with the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law. She then went on to work in private research and moonlighted as a guest trainer and researcher with the investigative collective Bellingcat, specializing in disinformation and the illicit use of cryptocurrencies.
The school police chief was singled out for blame, but a Times visual investigation found that scores of trained officers, including those from an elite Border Patrol unit, took many of the same steps.
By Robin Stein and Alexander Cardia
Families agonized outside Robb Elementary. And they waited.
By Keith Collins, Albert Sun, Eleanor Lutz and Larry Buchanan
An updated sequence of events as described by police officials in a press conference on Friday.
By Larry Buchanan, Keith Collins, Lazaro Gamio, Taylor Johnston, Eleanor Lutz and Albert Sun
In the weeks since Russia began its invasion, more than 1,500 civilian buildings, structures and vehicles in Ukraine have been damaged or destroyed.
By Keith Collins, Danielle Ivory, Jon Huang, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Cierra S. Queen, Lauryn Higgins, Jess Ruderman, Kristine White and Bonnie G. Wong
This was featured in live coverage.
By Brenna Smith and Masha Froliak
As Russian forces pushed toward Kyiv, they stormed an apartment complex in a nearby suburb and held residents hostage. Some of it was caught on camera.
By Brenna Smith and Masha Froliak
This was featured in live coverage.
By Christoph Koettl, Brenna Smith and Drew Jordan
This was featured in live coverage.
By Brenna Smith, Malachy Browne, Dmitriy Khavin, Ang Li, Robin Stein and Marc Santora
This was featured in live coverage.
By Muyi Xiao, Christoph Koettl, Drew Jordan and Brenna Smith
Security camera footage showed a building ablaze inside the complex amid fighting. The fire was later extinguished. A Ukrainian agency said that Russian forces had taken control of the site.
By Mike Ives, William J. Broad, Malachy Browne, Brenna Smith and Ang Li