Joshua Bowling is an award-winning investigative journalist residing in northern New Mexico. His work has been published in numerous national outlets, including the Guardian and USA Today.

Joshua is a staff writer at Searchlight New Mexico, an investigative journalism nonprofit, where he covers the criminal justice system. In that role, his reporting has exposed systemic abuses of power and told the stories of the people exploited by those systems. He has embedded with a support group for the mothers of murderers, unearthed deplorable conditions inside the state’s largest juvenile jail and prompted systemic change in writing about local police departments’ nation-leading use of deadly force.

Prior to working and writing in New Mexico, Joshua was a journalist in Phoenix at the Arizona Republic, the largest newspaper in the USA Today Network, where his reporting exposed costly water shortages and injustice in a historically Black community that had been overrun by industrialization.

Raised in the Southwest, Joshua is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. He resides in Albuquerque with his wife, Carly, their mini poodle, Zooey, and their adopted feral cat, Ziggy.