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 newspaper’s 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 criminal and civil cases against former President Donald Trump and his family real estate business by New York’s attorney general and the Manhattan district attorney.

Some of her exclusive work includes reporting on systemic neglect that led to the Rikers Island suicide of Michael Nieves, the 13th New Yorker to die waiting for trial in 2022. In late 2021, she covered the state judicial inquest into Eric Garner’s killing in police custody. And throughout the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, she reported extensively on the city and state’s failure to ensure the safety of medically vulnerable shelter residents and pretrial detainees.

Her photography and videography have illustrated many of her news stories and frequently appear in major media outlets via the Tribune wire service.

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.