Jake Wasserman is an engagement journalist based in the New York metro area. A graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism's Engagement Journalism program, he focused his graduate reporting on voting rights, and worked on the Electionland tip desk at ProPublica to monitor voting issues in West Virginia and Kentucky on Election Day 2020. He also was the inaugural engagement reporting fellow at Mountain State Spotlight, a nonprofit investigative newsroom in West Virginia, and a consultant with the Black-led West Virginia media collective, Black By God.
From 2021 to 2025, Jake was the engagement editor at the Forward, America's largest Jewish news organization.
He was a 2024 Fulbright fellow in Germany and was awarded a first place Rockower Award for Writing about Jewish Heritage and Jewish Peoplehood in Europe from the American Jewish Press Association for his reporting there. He was named a Transatlantic Media Fellow for Democracy by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, D.C. in 2025.
In September 2025, Jake joined The Guardian as an audience engagement editor on the U.S. team.
