Daniel Bates

The i Paper • 25th May 2026

Inside America's most loyal Trump town - where people still think he's 'a good man'

Dispatch about Grant County, Nebraska, the 'Trumpiest' county in the whole of the US

inews.co.uk • 11th September 2024

The firefighters still dying from the effects of 9/11 - 23 years on

Feature focusing on NYC firefighters and their health challenges that persist 23 years since they worked on 9/11

inews.co.uk • 9th December 2023

‘My mum didn’t tell me trucking wasn’t for girls – it comes naturally to me’

Interview with long haul trucker for the ipaper, a British national newspaper

Sunday Times • 1st April 2019

The opening of Hudson Yards

Feature on the opening of the biggest real estate development in America

Mail on Sunday • 5th December 2017

World exclusive: the unseen letters between Nancy Reagan and Prince Charles

Four page spread and front cover in the Mail on Sunday

Medium • 27th November 2018

A year under DACA: Zenith’s story

Year long project following a young immigrant to see what life in legal limbo is like

Mail Online • 17th April 2017

The all-American hero who is being deported under Donald Trump

He is a Christian and a former soldier who fought for America and supported Donald Trump. But Nahidh Shaou is also an Iraqi immigrant who was jailed for 35 years in 1983 for injuring a cop during an armed robbery. Now under Trump he faces deportation back to Iraq, a country he does not even know.

International Business Times UK • 19th April 2017

Inside America's deadly opioid crisis: 'It feels like a horror movie'

Feature article for the International Business Times on how Staten Island is dealing with the crisis

Mail Online • 6th April 2017

Military funeral for WWII hero whose body was dumped in a field in a suitcase

How a decorated veteran was given such dishonorable treatment - and how he was finally given a proper burial

Mail Online • 3rd August 2017

Trump immigration policy: His own family wouldn't have got into U.S.

Trump is known for his hard line approach to immigration, but if Congress adopted such rules in the past then relatives of most of his cabinet - and ancestors of the President himself - would likely never have been admitted to America.

International Business Times UK • 13th July 2016

Gentrification in East New York

In-depth feature on how one of the poorest parts of New York is changing due to gentrification

Mail Online • 7th December 2015

Only the bear is unhappy say hunters in New Jersey as cull begins

Dispatch from the wilds of New Jersey during a bear cull

The Daily Beast • 20th August 2016

What Took Medellin’s Top American Pimp So Long to Get Caught?

American tourists visiting Medellín knew him as 'Colombia Jake', the friendly local American guide who made sure they had a good time - but his dark life became public after he was arrested by police.

Mail Online • 19th June 2017

How government elites plan to survive a nuclear attack

America built a secret network of remote underground bunkers during the Cold War in case of a nuclear strike by the Russians. But they were not made to protect civilians - the hideouts were just for top government officials. Feature article.

Mail Online • 27th December 2016

Carrie Fisher: The Hollywood princess who battled her demons in public

Carrie Fisher was as brutally frank as she was brutally funny - and it wasn't like she had a shortage of material. Obituary for DailyMail.com for the Star Wars actress.

Mail Online • 12th July 2013

Ohio kidnapping victims one year on

Feature a year on from the Ariel Castro kidnapping case; family friend reveals how one of the victims still sees the world as a 14-year-old.

Global-Citizen • 19th March 2015

Interview with Jimmy Carter

Interview with the former President as he looked back on his troubled term in office, talked about his new book and his ongoing fight to end the abuse of women and lethal waterborne diseases

Mail Online • 6th October 2017

Wife and children are 'standing by’ Harvey Weinstein

World exclusive interview the day after the New York Times published the first allegations about him

7th December 2017

The man who wants to fix NYC's transit nightmare

Interview with Andy Byford, the former London Undergound manager who is taking on the biggest job in transport

The Daily Beast • 15th December 2015

Meet Tamara Adrián, Venezuela’s Crusading Trans Politician

The Guardian • 25th October 2016

Crime, punishment and redemption: the man who decides whether to free killers

Feature on former parole board officer Frederic Reamer for The Guardian