Happy Birthday to The Marshall Project
Our founder reflects on the first five years.
The Marshall Project began publishing five years ago today, but in many ways its birthday was actually Feb. 9, 2014.
That was the day The New York Times announced that its former executive editor Bill Keller would be joining us as founding editor.
That evening, I attended a large dinner at John Jay College of Criminal Justice honoring Piper Kerman, the formerly incarcerated writer whose," had become a cultural phenomenon. I was new to this world and so appreciative when John Jay's then-president spoke of the positive developments in criminal justice reform by citing our creation, and , and then pointed to me as the founder of this new enterprise.
