Colin Daileda is a freelance journalist in Bengaluru, India. His reporting, essays and photography have been published in The Atlantic, Atlas Obscura, The Baffler, Deadspin (RIP), Defector, Earth Island Journal, Fifty Two, Hidden Compass, Longreads, Popula, Reuters, The News Minute, The Washington Post, and others. Before Bengaluru, he was a reporter for Mashable based in New York City, from where he often traveled across the United States writing about state violence and social justice. 

He recently received a Pulitzer Center grant to report on humanity’s increasingly desperate and confrontational relationship with water, and what can be done about it. “Storm Catchers,” his story about the past, present, and all-important future of monsoon forecasting, was a Covering Climate Now awards finalist for long form writing, and a Fetisov Journalism Awards finalist for “excellence in environmental journalism.” At Mashable, his reporting on unrest in Baltimore helped earn them an Online News Association award nomination in "Breaking News."  

Colin’s freelancing has taken him from the cratered roads of the Himalayas up north, down to the flat lagoons of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He spends a lot of time running, though he would often prefer to be playing basketball or eating a doughnut.