These are some of my favorite story pitches that I’ve made during my time at NBC News.
2026
- New data shows how the most common first and last names in the U.S. have changed
- 24 members of Congress are 80 or older. More than half are running for re-election.
2025
- Government shutdown key dates: What happened and what’s happening, day by day
- Independent and third-party voter registration growing, largely at the expense of Democrats
- Dog attacks on mail carriers reach 7-year high, Postal Service data shows
- JD Vance says crypto can help everyday Americans. Here’s how many actually use it.
- Map: The U.S. states where the number of Catholics is growing
- The Colorado Rockies are off to one of the worst starts in MLB history
- Wine sales drying up as Americans turn elsewhere
- Congress, once again, is getting older
2024
- Fertility declines, tapering populations, soaring life expectancies: What the U.N. population report shows about us and our future on this planet
- Local officials increasingly targeted for threats and harassment, new data shows
- 29 million Americans live under new voter ID laws put in place since 2020
2023
- Map: How vulnerable is your neighborhood to excessive heat?
- The 118th Congress is the third oldest since 1789
2022
- Again and again: The school shootings since Sandy Hook
- Thefts of this valuable car part have gotten so bad that Congress is trying to fix it
- President Biden claimed more kids are dying of guns than cars. That’s not the whole story.
- Fauci expects most states to reach peak omicron by February. Close to half already have.
2021
- Biden has new vaccination goals. See if the country is on pace to hit them.
- Inside the $40-billion-a-year tax 'loophole' Biden's plan would eliminate
- Four months into the vaccination rollout, ethnicity and racial data collection continues to lag
- How the first year of the pandemic changed our bodies
2019
- More hot nights the sign of an off-kilter climate, scientists say
- Mueller deflected questions 198 times. We tracked when he did it.
- Name of Thrones: Parents are naming their kids after favorite 'GoT' characters
- Agriculture census finds that llamas are disappearing. What happened?