A journalist portfolio built like a front page: sharp angles, layered evidence, and enough visual tension to make every story feel alive.
years turning fast-moving events into clear, human stories.
I’m Maya Sen, a multidisciplinary journalist covering cities, public policy, culture, and the systems that shape everyday life. My work moves between live reporting, investigations, interviews, and narrative features.
Housing, mobility, municipal budgets, public services, and the people navigating them.
Document-led reporting that follows money, decisions, timelines, and the gap between promise and outcome.
Profiles and reported essays about the scenes, creators, and communities changing a city.
Ground-level reporting where a policy becomes a queue, a rent bill, a classroom, or a family decision.
Complex stories translated into clean timelines, annotated reporting, and memorable narrative structure.
A reported investigation into redevelopment, relocation notices, and the residents negotiating the price of “progress.”
A morning-on-the-line feature about commuters, maintenance crews, and a timetable that reveals a city's hidden architecture.
Interviews, photographs, property records, and memory assembled into a portrait of urban change.
A visual explainer tracing one education allocation from council vote to a teacher's supply cupboard.
2024 - Present · Led enterprise reporting, coached junior reporters, and built source networks across civic institutions.
2021 - 2024 · Covered city hall, transport, housing, and breaking news with a focus on documents and public records.
2019 - 2021 · Reported short-form news, produced newsletters, and developed a recurring local accountability column.
Start where the official version and lived reality stop matching.
Documents, datasets, interviews, site visits, chronology.
Challenge assumptions, corroborate claims, seek the missing voice.
Make the stakes visible without flattening the nuance.
For commissioning, speaking, reporting collaborations, or source conversations, send a note.
✉ maya@example.com