Raw Story adds new assistant managing editor, news writer

I'm so excited to add Kathleen and M.L. to the team. Between them, they bring a depth of experience and talent that is going to be invaluable to fulfilling Raw Story's mission of bringing vital news to our readers quickly and accurately.”

Executive Editor Adam Nichols

Raw Story, America’s largest independently-owned political news site, has hired a new assistant managing editor and news writer as it continues to expand its breaking news and investigative reporting staffs.

Assistant Managing Editor Kathleen Culliton comes from New York City Patch, where she served as the local news outlet's managing editor for New York City.

Culliton has covered local and national news for more than a decade for outlets that include the New York Post, Al Jazeera, DNAinfo New York, Bustle, the New York Daily News, WNYC, NY1 and City Limits. She is an alumna of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and originally hails from New York City.

Veteran news writer M.L. Nestel brings deep reporting experience to Raw Story, having previously worked at Newsweek, ABC News, The Daily Beast, The Daily Mail, The New York Post, The New York Daily News and Newsday.

"I'm so excited to add Kathleen and M.L. to the team," said Executive Editor Adam Nichols. "Between them, they bring a depth of experience and talent that is going to be invaluable to fulfilling Raw Story's mission of bringing vital news to our readers quickly and accurately."

Since January, Raw Story has made several key hires in an effort to expand its original reporting and national reach. Among them: Editor-in-Chief Dave Levinthal, investigative reporters Alexandria Jacobson and Mark Alesia, night editor David McAfee and Nichols.

This year, Raw Story investigative reporter Jordan Green won a 2023 Folio Award for his reporting on extremism while Jacobson won first prize in the ION Awards contest for her series of exclusive reports about members of Congress violating a federal law designed to stop insider trading, curb financial conflicts of interest and enhance public transparency.

Raw Story has also aggressively pursued stories through legal means, including the frequent filing of Freedom of Information Act and state-level open records requests, and suing the federal government when it refuses to release records to which the public should have access.