Mark Walker briefed attendees of NPF and RTDNA’s “Crime Coverage Summit: 2023” in San Diego and spoke about “Five Records Requests Every Crime Reporter Should File” January 13, 2023.

He also briefed National Press Foundation fellows in January 2022: A FOIA Field Guide and Web Scraping without Coding.

Mark Walker is an investigative reporter focused on transportation at the Washington bureau of The New York Times after previously serving as FOIA coordinator. He was also a NPF Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellow in 2022. Prior to joining the New York Times, he was a training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors. Before joining IRE, Mark worked as a watchdog reporter focusing on law and order at The Argus Leader newspaper in Sioux Falls, S.D. In 2016, he was named South Dakota Outstanding Young Journalist of the Year and won the South Dakota Newspaper Association’s public service reporting award for the series Locked in Limbo, on mentally ill criminal defendants languishing in jail because of delays in mental competency evaluations. Mark, a graduate of Fort Valley State University in Georgia, grew up in Savannah.