Hey! My name is Finn, and I am a journalist from New York City. I have worked as a reporter for the Marion County Record and interned at The New Republic and New York Focus. Thanks for visiting this ol’ website of mine. Below you can find more details about my life and work.
After graduating the University of Chicago in 2024, I voyaged west to Marion, Kansas, a town of less than 1,900, to take a job with the Marion County Record. The Record is an independent, aggressive, and high-quality paper. While it is best known for being raided by local police in 2023, it has served the community for over a century. I won various Kansas Press Association awards during my time in the Flint Hills, including the Victor Murdock Award and the A-Mark Prize for Investigative Reporting for my coverage of a police officer with a checkered background who was hired by a local precinct. I was a focus of Seized, a documentary which underscored local journalism’s threatened presence in rural America.
I wrote more than 250 articles for the Record. A full list can be found here, but here are a few of my best:
Tabor College’s alcohol policies walk the line (10/2/24)
Street smarts? (10/30/24)
Nevada sheriff says embattled Peabody cop paid for sex, pills (4/18/25)
Dog gone? Too many pets add to too many troubles (12/18/24)
No place like home even after slipping off senatorial slippers (1/15/25)
Life next to solar alarm isn’t so sunny (6/11/25)
Marion County Record
I created a Substack in Marion to write more creative, experimental work about the middle of nowhere. After returning to New York, I kept the blog alive, and continue to write essays there once in a blue moon. Read it here.
Substack
From 2020 to 2024, I wrote for UChicago’s student paper, the Chicago Maroon. As a sophomore, I took over as editor of the sports section. I continued in that role throughout my time on the South Side, while also reporting on newsier subjects, such as the university’s pro-Palestine encampment and its eventual raid by university police.
Chicago Maroon
In the first half of 2026, I served as the editorial intern at The New Republic. I wrote three features for the magazine: one on local resistance groups battling invasive security cameras, another on the most interesting Democratic primaries of the year, and a third about how an underground nuclear reactor has fractured a small Midwestern town. I also penned over 140 short clips for the magazine’s fast-paced Breaking News section.