David Rowell is a senior editor at ICIJ.

Previously he was the deputy editor of The Washington Post Magazine, where he worked for nearly 25 years. Prior to that, he was an executive editor at the literary magazine DoubleTake.

He is the author of the books The Train of Small Mercies (2011), Wherever the Sound Takes You: Heroism and Heartbreaking in Music Making (2019), and The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music (2024).

David is based just outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.