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Phoenix Responds to the Killing of Alex Pretti

Hours after Border Patrol killed a second American citizen in Minneapolis, protesters assembled in Phoenix to say “No more” 

January 2026

International students at Arizona State University prepare to watch sunset over campus from "A Mountain"
Reuben J. Brown for WSJ

Arizona State’s President Is Pulling Out All the Stops to Get on Trump’s Good Side

ASU is positioning itself as the anti-Harvard in Trump’s campaign to remake higher education

Photography and video for The Wall Street Journal in November 2025

Mark Felix courtesy Public Health Watch

In “Fumed,” Public Health Watch Humanizes the Fight Against Texas Petrochemical Businesses Acting With Impunity

For The Reynolds Center for Business Journalism in November 2025

Reuben J. Brown / The Reynolds Center

Reuters Journalists Replicate the Fentanyl Supply Chain in Groundbreaking Investigation

For The Reynolds Center for Business Journalism in November 2025

Reuben J. Brown / Cronkite News

For 113 Miles, the Colorado River is Now a Legal Person

With state-led negotiations in deadlock, one tribal nation has deployed a unique legal tactic to preserve its share of Colorado…

Broadcast package for Cronkite News in January 2026

Plastic greenhouses cover an area the size of Munich in Almería province and dominate its economy. On the Campo de Dalías peninsula, the greenhouses form a nearly continuous mat from the mountains to the Sea
Reuben J. Brown for Panoramic

The Clock is Ticking on Spain’s Food Miracle

In Europe’s driest region, a vast plastic sea covers an agricultural system built on intensity and innovation. But the cracks…

Writing and photography for Panoramic in May 2025

Reuben J. Brown

The Kilometer-Long Laser That Fits Inside a Basement

ASU’s Compact X-ray Free-Electron Laser is a hundredth the size and a fraction the cost of similar instruments. Its creators…

November 2025

Scientific American via Instagram

News Publishers Are Making Big Bets on Little Videos. Revenue Opportunities Are Similarly Slim.

There are new audiences to be won on TikTok, but few new revenue streams

Writing and short-form video for The Reynolds Center for Business Journalism in October 2025

Reuben J. Brown

No Kings in Phoenix

An estimated five million people attended “No Kings Day” protests across the United States on October 18, 2025, likely making…

October 2025

Members of the Sigma Chi fraternity at Arizona State University clear trees from the street after a microburst storm hit Tempe
Reuben J. Brown

Tempe Cleans Up After a Freak “Microburst” Storm

”We’ve had two 100-year storms in a week,” a former mayor told me

October 2025

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