Horus Alas is a reporter, photographer and digital designer based near Washington, D.C.
Horus has covered the 2020 elections, international democracy, immigration policy in Maryland, the 2019 impeachment investigation, the Supreme Court, and more. Read his clips here.
Steny Hoyer sees experience as his advantage
GREENBELT, Maryland – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Mechanicsville, doesn’t seem especially concerned about his reelection next year.
Former adviser tells impeachment inquiry Trump envoy was on ‘domestic political errand’
WASHINGTON – Former National Security Council Russia expert Fiona Hill and diplomat David Holmes testified in what may be the final public impeachment hearing Thursday, reinforcing previous witnesses’ assertions that President Donald Trump directly linked a White House meeting and military aid to Ukrainian investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and the 2016 election.
Briana Urbina’s pitch to Maryland’s 5th Congressional District: go younger
BOWIE, Maryland – Briana Urbina and her campaign staff marched through rows of two-story homes with red brick and vinyl siding exteriors as the sun inched closer to the horizon on an evening earlier this month. Red and brown leaves crunched beneath their feet, echoing along tree-lined sidewalks.
At Brookings talk, Van Hollen calls for “quiet diplomacy,” strategic partnerships
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, criticized what he called the Trump administration’s isolationist foreign policy and called for greater collaboration with American allies in a discussion on defense and international affairs at the Brookings Institution Thursday.
Horus' digital designs include journalistic stories with interactive graphics, product demos, a New York Times Style section mockup, and more. View examples of his design work here.
Odysseys in Craft and Magic: Notes from feature writing at the University of Maryland
Created a running blog to host notes, stories, and assignments from students at the University of Maryland's JOUR 371/689F: Feature Writing class.
Created a digital layout of a landing page intended to look like the New York Times' Style section as an assignment for my Feature Writing class at Maryland.
Smart Search - Don't stress. Let journalism jobs come to you.
Created a digital landing page for a journalism job-finding app, Smart Search. App designed by two colleagues and me for our JOUR 654: Advanced Interactive Multimedia Storytelling class at Maryland in May 2019.
Pedestrian safety, Prince George's County and College Park
Reported, wrote and digitally designed a story on trends in pedestrian transit fatalities in College Park and Prince George's County, Maryland.
H
orus Alas is a writer, reporter, photographer, copyeditor and digital designer
based in Silver Spring, Maryland.
His reporting has covered education and public safety in Loudoun County, Virginia; international democracy; federal elections in the U.S.; immigration policy, the State House and Congressional delegation in Maryland; former President Donald Trump's impeachment, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Horus also thrives reporting on feature stories highlighting the human experience within larger events.
As a designer, he engages the user with streamlined features and interactive graphics that propel a story. Horus' pages provide a crisp backdrop for journalistic stories and product demos. His photography aims to capture human emotion within newsmaking events — Horus is proficient at making images with a Nikon D750 and D5100, using a 24-70 mm wide-angle lens as well as a 70-200 mm telephoto lens.
Horus has edited web content for NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and written for the Loudoun Times-Mirror, U.S. News & World Report, Maryland Matters, the Baltimore Brew, Capital News Service, the Diamondback and the Frederick News-Post.
He completed a master's degree in journalism at the University of Maryland in December 2019. Horus previously earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the same university, and is a native Spanish speaker with backgrounds in Latin, French and Italian. View his resume here.