Lauren Mucciolo

Lauren Mucciolo is the Executive Producer of the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University, a groundbreaking, hands-on experience in which students produce deeply researched and multimedia-rich watchdog journalism that professional partners carry – including PBS NewsHour, USA Today and The Associated Press. Their work has been recognized with more than 60 awards – from both collegiate and professional journalism contests. In 2025 the Howard Centers at ASU and UMD, the AP and Frontline were named a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for “Lethal Restraint.” Mucciolo has been teaching visual storytelling, documentary-making, and investigative reporting and editing at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication since 2019. She has a background in documentary journalism, having served as a producer, director and/or reporter on more than a dozen broadcast and digital documentary films for PBS Frontline since 2012 – many of which were coproductions with British broadcasters. Known for character-driven and observational filmmaking, her films have received two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, five Emmy nominations, a SXSW Festival Jury Prize, among other honors. Mucciolo also won the Best Director, Factual Film award from the Royal Television Society for her 2017 documentary, “Last Days of Solitary,” with aired on Frontline and BBC Storyville.