Trone L. Dowd

Journalist, Editor, and Videographer

United States

Trone is a writer and journalist from Queens. He has reported on national politics, criminal justice, and gaming, with work published in Vice, Inverse, IGN, Time, Crain’s, and Gothamist. He has also collaborated on projects with nonprofits like The David Prize. Trone is an alum of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

He’s available for reporting, copywriting, video editing, and video game consulting gigs.

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Portfolio

Gaming and Tech

Time Magazine
10/14/2024
How YouTubers Keep The Game Spicy

With more than 1.5 trillion (!) views to their credit, Minecraft's viral video stars inspire and shape players' experiences.

Inverse
02/13/2025
'Avowed' Is A Lean, Mean, Epic RPG

'Avowed' is an engrossing, sprawling role-playing experience that avoids the bloat and excess that so many of its contemporaries' stumble through.

Race and Civil Rights

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Vice News
06/18/2022
Buffalo Is Still Reeling From Racist Massacre

After a white supremacist attacked an East Buffalo supermarket, residents found that it was up to them to pick up the pieces. With the neighborhood’s only grocery store closed for the foreseeable future and the loss of 10 of its community members, activists and volunteers spent weeks filling the void by identifying the needs of the people, knocking on doors, organizing food giveaways and speaking to the city’s youth. But many of the issues they saw weren’t just a result of the recent...

Justice And Policing

VICE
05/25/2021
Why Black Cops Quit

"The 'Blue Wall of Silence' is so real and so pervasive that people outside of it don't have a clue of what it's like," one former officer told VICE News.

Local And National Stories

Crain's New York Business
10/14/2019
Nonprofits fill census funding gap as federal government lags

With the 2020 census a little more than six months away, state government agencies and local nonprofits are pouring money into additional resources in hopes of offsetting growing concerns about the upcoming count.

Courts And Trials

New York Minute