Jim Urquhart
Pulitzer Prize recipient Jim Urquhart is a freelance photojournalist who has covered the destabilization of America for more than a decade.
He spent most of this time gaining insider access to violent hate groups, and armed militias and leftist groups – joining them at their kitchen tables, training sites, and at the frontlines of some of the world’s biggest stories, including the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Whether covering a standoff between militias and federal agents, civil unrest, or documenting the inner workings of hate groups he has done this work transparently, never concealing his Latino ethnic identity and mixed-race family from his sources or story subjects.
Urquhart was a 2022 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University, where he continued his studies in the intersection of race and power, domestic and international terrorism, extremism, white nationalism, and global conflict. A freelancer since 2010, he works with reporters and editors at a number of leading news organizations, helping shape investigations and breaking news coverage. When not covering violence, he often works on stories related to immigration to the U.S. and the growing impacts of climate change. Before that, he worked for 10 years as an editor, photojournalist and reporter at several daily newspapers in the United States.
Urquhart is also an on-site security advisor, and hostile environment and first aid trainer helping prepare journalists around the world for the violent and austere conditions that are all too common now. He regularly mentors other journalists in how to build sources and improve security preparations when reporting on extremist movements.
In his downtime, Urquhart is out camping, rock climbing or trying to find the last best place in the western United States where cell phones still don't work.
He can be reached at -
(801) 707-6959