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Marcus Veil

War Correspondent · Investigative Reporter · Reuters · The Atlantic · Foreign Policy

01Conflict Reporting
ReutersIRE Award 2023
Bombed-out building in an urban conflict zone at dusk

The Last Corridor: Inside Mariupol's Final 72 Hours

"We had one radio, half a battery, and a list of names we were never going to finish reading."

18 min read
Reuters

The Last Corridor: Inside Mariupol's Final 72 Hours

When the steel plant's gates closed for the last time, 2,400 civilians were still inside. This is the account of the officers who made the call — and the ones who didn't make it out.

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Reuters

Airstrikes Hit Civilian Hospital in Northern Gaza, Witnesses Say

4 min read
Reuters

Airstrikes Hit Civilian Hospital in Northern Gaza, Witnesses Say

Three strikes in ninety minutes. The maternity ward was on the fourth floor.

·4 min read
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The Atlantic

The Fixers: The Unnamed People Who Make War Journalism Possible

14 min read
The Atlantic

The Fixers: The Unnamed People Who Make War Journalism Possible

They carry the notebooks, translate the threats, and absorb the danger. Their names rarely appear in print. This is a story about the people behind every story.

·14 min read
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Foreign Policy
Refugees waiting at a border crossing in winter, luggage and children in tow

Displacement: A Year on the Poland-Ukraine Border

10 min read
Foreign Policy

Displacement: A Year on the Poland-Ukraine Border

Forty-eight hours at the crossing point where a million people crossed in the first month — and a small handful crossed back.

·10 min read
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02Investigations & Data
ProPublicaFinalist, Pulitzer 2024
Close-up of financial documents and a calculator on a desk under harsh light

Shell Companies, Silence, and the Sackler Trail Through Three Continents

"The money moved faster than the bodies were counted."

24 min read
ProPublica

Shell Companies, Silence, and the Sackler Trail Through Three Continents

A fourteen-month investigation into the offshore architecture that shielded $10.7 billion from opioid litigation — and the regulators who looked away.

·24 min read
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Foreign Policy

What the Climate Data Actually Says About the Next Decade

9 min read
Foreign Policy

What the Climate Data Actually Says About the Next Decade

Forget the projections. The models the IPCC uses internally tell a different story — and three scientists agreed to walk me through it.

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ReutersSABEW Award

WHO Delayed Mpox Emergency Declaration by Six Weeks, Internal Emails Show

6 min read
Reuters

WHO Delayed Mpox Emergency Declaration by Six Weeks, Internal Emails Show

Documents obtained under freedom-of-information law contradict the agency's official timeline.

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The Atlantic

The Algorithm That Decides Who Gets Deported

16 min read
The Atlantic

The Algorithm That Decides Who Gets Deported

ICE's risk-assessment tool has been used in 200,000 decisions. No one outside the agency has ever audited it. We built a proxy model to find out what it's actually doing.

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03Personal Essays
The AtlanticASME Award

Learning to Stop Reporting and Start Grieving

12 min read
The Atlantic

Learning to Stop Reporting and Start Grieving

After twelve years of filing from the field, I finally ran out of distance between me and the story. This is what I found on the other side.

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Granta
Damaged building interior with light streaming through broken walls, rubble on the floor

The Interpreter's Notebook

8 min read
Granta

The Interpreter's Notebook

Photographs from a disposable camera found in the rubble of a government building, captioned by the woman who left it there.

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Granta

What Silence Sounds Like in Four Languages

7 min read
Granta

What Silence Sounds Like in Four Languages

The city has a particular relationship with the word "never again." I spent a week listening to how it's said.

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