Micah Danney

Multimedia journalist with a nose for stories and the panache to tell them well.


I've held a variety of reporting and editing roles across mediums and around the world. From chaotic breaking news scenes to unjustifiably long school board meetings, I come alive for the task of figuring it all out and getting it right. I started out in local news in Long Island, N.Y., migrated to the five boroughs of NYC, did a few stints in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, covered state politics in Alabama and settled on the Big Apple with the New York Daily News.

The GroundTruth Project •

Ground Truth Project: "End of Days" Podcasts

Twenty years ago, a movement known as Christian Zionism was on the furthest fringes in the land of Israel. Back then, mainstream theologians — Christian and Jewish alike — dismissed Christian Zionism as a dangerous interpretation of biblical prophecies; the ideology was flawed at best, at its worst, inherently anti-Semitic. Today, Christian Zionism has gone mainstream, with explosive growth in both fundraising and political power.
The GroundTruth Project •

The faces of "The End of Days": Christian Zionism in Israel

“End of Days” is a series of written profiles and podcast episodes exploring the growing influence of Christian Zionists in Middle East politics as they work with the Israeli right to fulfill what the Zionists believe is biblical prophecy. Danney spent five months immersed in the Christian Zionist community in Jerusalem and the West Bank and interviewed scores of believers and dozens of religious leaders in this movement.
AMERICAN THEATRE •

Rising From the Ruins: A Theatre Persists in Gaza

The cultural center’s five stories had housed one of Gaza’s last remaining large theatre spaces, according to Ali Abu Yaseen, a director and acting coach who ran his school out of the building. Yaseen helped found ASHTAR Theatre, the group that produced The Gaza Monologues in 2010. It was a year after the Israel Defense Forces launched a ground assault into the Strip that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. The play featured personal stories of young people describing life in the besieged coastal enclave. It was translated into 14 languages and performed in 36 countries.
Sojourners •

Rehabilitation Through Relationship: One Man's Journey Home

Four months after he was released from prison, Steven Cave, 36, sat between the couple he calls his parents in Bloomsburg, Pa., and explained how their kindness showed him how to end a lifetime of chaos. “I never was big on words,” he said. That’s because Cave’s earliest memories are of his biological mother using words to mask a perverse pattern of abuse, sending him off with men and women she told him were uncles and aunts. “I used to have people tie me up and just rape me brutally, to ever
Voices of NY •

Rallying in Support of Protesters in Iran

The nonprofit Casa Anunciación, which gives shelter to immigrants released by ICE in El Paso, Texas, has shattered its record attendance for the season in its 43rd year of existence, El Diario de El Paso reports. According to founder and director Rubén García, from Feb. 17 to 23, the organization sheltered 3,637 people. “We expect the numbers to go up as the weather improves,” said García. Casa Anunciación operates 15 shelters hosting people in need of a place to sleep, bathe and eat as they pre
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange •

How a New York Police Official Targets Thoughts to Fight Crime

Watch WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show to learn more and meet videographer Micah Danney and Risco Mention-Lewis NEW YORK — When Carlos Jennings got out of prison in 2014, he wanted to kill the person who helped put him there. “I wasn’t home seven days after doing 10 years in jail, and I’m in the car with somebody else, with a gun in my hand, trying to do something to somebody,” he said. He was 22 and deep in the narcotics business in Queens, New York, when he fatally shot a man who had previously sho
Times of Israel •

Israel VC with focus on auto tech raises $40 million

Israel-based venture capital firm Maniv Mobile LP, which invests mostly in early-stage transportation technology startups, said Wednesday it has raised more than $40 million, twice its goal, for its first fund. The fund will act as a bridge for partners looking to invest in emerging mobility technologies, according to the firm, which already has a portfolio of 15 such startups. Most are in Israel and a few are in the US. Since Intel Corp.’s acquisition of Mobileye in March, investor attention
Times of Israel •

St. Louis seeks to draw Israel’s tech for competitive edge

Seven Israeli healthcare technology companies took part in a conference in St. Louis, Missouri, last month that was meant to expose local hospitals and corporations to Israeli cutting edge innovations, the organizers said. The startups “were rigorously vetted and carefully selected as offering cutting-edge innovations that are in demand by St. Louis-based hospital systems and healthcare corporations,” according to Donn Rubin, president and CEO of BioSTL, an organization dedicated to nurturing t
Times of Israel •

Israeli startups to vie for spot in China roadshow

Forty Israeli startups from the information communication technology (ICT) and life sciences sectors will compete at a July 31 conference in Jerusalem for the chance to fly to China to meet with investors and companies there. “The conference will enable Chinese investors to choose the Israeli innovations with the greatest potential for success in China,” said Aharon Aharon, CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority. “This is another way in which the Israel Innovation Authority is trying to support
Times of Israel •

Israeli tech firm urges others to tap pool of Palestinian talent

Israel’s Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a maker of high-speed computer networking products that employs Palestinian software developers in the West Bank and Gaza, is urging other Israeli and multinational software companies to consider doing the same in order to help their bottom lines as well as the Palestinian economy. “There’s a great potential, and they’re unutilized in terms of what we think we can do, or they can do, in terms of developing their high-tech skills and helping us achieve our ta
Times of Israel •

Israel’s robot friend nabs Toyota Research investment

Intuition Robotics, the developer of ElliQ, a social companion robot for elderly people, said it has raised $14 million in a series-A funding round led by Japan’s Toyota Research Institute (TRI). The investment round brings the total funds raised to date to $16 million, the Israeli startup said. TRI joined investors OurCrowd and iRobot, as well as existing seed investors Maniv Mobility, Terra Venture Partners, Bloomberg Beta, and other private investors, the startup said in a statement. ElliQ
Times of Israel •

Israeli startup tracks behavior to outsmart hacker bots

You might think of hackers as people sitting at computers, but custom software applications, or bots, can be the ones doing the dirty work. Bots automate the business of hacking, tearing through massive troves of stolen account data, for example, or bombarding website login pages with passwords, probing for hits. Enter Unbotify, an Israeli tech startup that analyzes human behavior patterns to differentiate between bots and humans and weed out the fakers. “Our claim is we are not raising the ba
Times of Israel •

Israeli startup takes aim at Huntington’s disease

An Israeli biopharmaceutical company, Mitoconix Bio, has nabbed $20 million from investors to develop a promising drug for the treatment of Huntington’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. There is no drug in existence that can slow or stop the progression of such diseases, said Dr. Eyal Neria, CEO of Mitoconix Bio. “This is the Holy Grail of drugs for neurodegeneration, or what’s called disease modifying agents,” he said. The company was founded in August 2016 by Daria Mochly-Rosen
Times of Israel •

Israel tech team grows as it drives US jobs site expansion

ZipRecruiter, the second-largest job search website in the US, is planning to double its Israeli operations by the end of the year, the head of its research and development team in Israel said in an interview with The Times of Israel. “We’re trying to find good engineers who can provide more capacity to the company, because it’s a company that’s growing very fast,” said Avi Golan, 39, the team’s general manager. ZipRecruiter today employs 30 workers in Israel who work on improving the website’
Times of Israel •

Brazil looks to Israel for ways public policy, academia can spur economy

Brazil, the world’s fifth-largest country and Latin America’s largest startup ecosystem, is looking to Israel to glean insights on how public policy can contribute to fostering innovation. Marcos Pereira, Brazil’s minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, led a delegation to Israel this week on a four-day trip that included startups in Tel Aviv, desalination plants and Hebrew University of Jerusalem labs. “We are visiting some business organizations, some venture capital firms, and
Times of Israel •

Workers would peek at colleagues’ salaries if they could – survey

Companies have plenty to worry about from their own employees when it comes to protecting sensitive data, according to a recent survey of United Kingdom office workers by an Israel-based cybersecurity firm. Over half of the people surveyed said they would access sensitive data if they knew they wouldn’t get caught. Just under a third said they would give themselves a raise, and 19 percent said they would give themselves extra vacation time. The survey was conducted in May by CyberArk, a cybers
Times of Israel •

Market visitors get a look at the future of food in Jerusalem

Liquor-infused ice cream and protein powder made from fruit fly larvae were among the emerging food products showcased in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Market last week, as visitors to the market mingled with startup founders and venture capitalists to get a taste of what our food will look like in the coming years. It was the third “ShukTech” event this year in the city’s popular market-by-day, which turns into a buzzing nightlife scene when the sun goes down. It was organized by Strauss Group, an
Times of Israel •

Israelis favor gentle government ‘nudges,’ study says

Israelis of all walks of life tend to support gentle prompts from government and businesses that encourage positive behavior, according to a recent survey. The method of influence is known as “nudging,” and it includes measures like enabling organ donation registration during driver’s license renewal, or having credit card companies send SMS alerts when customers approach their credit limit. The use of nudges is being examined in several countries as a tool governments can use to encourage hea
Times of Israel •

Israeli researchers claim breakthrough in fighting bacterial drug resistance

Pathogens developing resistance to antibiotics is one of the gravest threats to modern medicine, according to the World Health Organization, but new research may have found a way to help doctors fight such germs. Researchers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem say they have found a simple method for measuring a bacteria’s tolerance, or the time it takes to kill a bacterial population. This will enable clinicians to more effectively treat strains that are on their path to becoming resistant, t
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