About

Kim Bellware is a veteran multi-media journalist who reports on how people's lives are shaped by issues driving the news. She specializes in reporting that brings context, empathy and nuance to stories involving violence, trauma and conflict.

She previously covered national breaking news for The Washington Post, where her work included examining the human impact of mass shootings and federal immigration policy; the way rural communities confronted extreme weather; and the legal and cultural forces shaping abortion access and the death penalty.

At The Post, her team was recognized in 2023 with the Ben Bradlee Award for Courage in Journalism for its coverage of mass shootings in America. In 2023, she was awarded an Ochberg Fellowship by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.

She serves as the first-ever journalist-in-residence for the Global Center on Journalism and Trauma (formerly the Dart Center), which provides journalists domestically and internationally with resources to ethically report on story subjects who have experienced violence and trauma to manage the toll of that reporting individually and in their newsrooms.

She previously mentored and led teams of emerging reporting fellows at the civic journalism lab, City Bureau, and has contributed as a freelance journalist to publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, and Rolling Stone. Prior to freelancing, she served more than five years as an editor and reporter with HuffPost.