Capital B is thrilled to announce the addition of Victoria St. Martin as deputy national editor to our growing newsroom.
St. Martin comes to Capital B from Inside Climate News (ICN), where she most recently was a health and environmental justice reporter. She’s spent 22 years in newsrooms that include The Washington Post, The Star-Ledger and The Times-Picayune. The New Jersey native has also worked in the classroom for seven years at the University of Notre Dame and is currently the co-director for the Dow Jones News Fund summer internship training workshop at Temple University.
A dozen years after a breast cancer diagnosis, St. Martin was able to bring her lived experience to her reporting at ICN and developed a series: The Cosmetic Industry’s Toxic Toll on Black Women. It examined if hair relaxers, skin lighteners and the like could impact Black women’s cancer risk.
“Our national team has built a great foundation that’s not only rooted in high-quality journalism, but empathy, creativity, and quick-thinking,” said Dalila-Johari Paul, Capital B National Editor. “Victoria brings inspiring energy to a newsroom that’s always evolving and continues to stay ambitious as we continue to launch more big projects and experiment with different story formats in 2025.”
In her new role, St. Martin will partner with the national editor to help manage and develop Capital B’s national team of reporters across the country. St. Martin will also play a critical role in identifying news coverage gaps and building the national newsroom’s freelancer network in 2025.
“For most of my career, I’ve worked in mainstream newsrooms where I was one of a handful of journalists of color, trying to elevate stories about our community’s rich tapestry — and sometimes, while trying to pitch stories to editors, it often felt as futile as trying to hold grains of sand in my hands,” St. Martin said. “But during the 2024 election cycle, I knew that I wanted to be a part of a newsroom where no matter who won, that the next four years I would get to help journalists who focus squarely on our community and tell our stories. A place where each grain of sand is important and valuable.”
Working remotely and based in South Jersey, you can find her on Threads, Bluesky, and X as well as LinkedIn as Victoria St. Martin.
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