Mariel Padilla

General Assignment Reporter for The 19th

Mariel Padilla is a general assignment reporter at The 19th. She's written about numerous topics, including the nursing shortage to child marriage laws to family-building concerns within the military community. She was a breaking news reporter at The New York Times where she contributed to COVID-19 coverage that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, created a database of Philippine drug war victims at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and contributed to a 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning project at The Cincinnati Enquirer.