Molly Crane-Newman is a multimedia journalist based in New York City. A staff reporter at the Daily News, she focuses on Manhattan’s state and federal courts. Previously, she reported thousands of stories as a breaking news correspondent for the Metro section from 2015 to 2018.

She has covered from the courtroom some sensational New York trials, including the convictions of drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, and former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Her recent coverage includes the myriad New York cases against former President Donald Trump, including his historic criminal conviction for the hush-money scheme and the civil lawsuits brought by the state attorney general and the writer E. Jean Carroll.

Some of her exclusive work includes coverage of the city’s mental health courts and their barriers to entry, including reporting on the systemic neglect that led to the Rikers Island suicide of Michael Nieves, the 13th New Yorker to die waiting for trial in 2022. Throughout the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, she scrutinized the intricacies of New York’s judicial system in reports that exposed the impacts of the city and state’s lack of pandemic preparedness.

Her photography and videography have illustrated many of her news stories and frequently appear in major media outlets via the Tribune wire service. She’s appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, NPR, MSNBC, the BBC, and ABC, among others, to discuss her coverage.

Molly was born in Northern California, grew up in Dublin, Ireland, and called Barcelona home for several years. She lives in Brooklyn.  

For more work samples, contact mollycranenewman@gmail.com or visit Molly’s Daily News byline page. And see her Instagram.