Meet the Team

Bridger Danseareu

Investigative Reporter

Bridger Danseareu leads True Signal Media's long-form investigative reporting, focusing on government accountability, financial fraud, and transparency failures. His work centers on systematic accountability gaps in federal and state agencies, with particular emphasis on FOIA-driven investigations that expose misuse of public funds and institutional failures.

His investigative approach is built on years of pursuing government transparency through direct advocacy and public records litigation. His reporting combines deep-dive document analysis with on-the-ground source development, producing stories that drive policy reform and public awareness.

Bridger's current investigations include federal restaurant fraud schemes, veteran services accountability, and Congressional ethics violations. His work has exposed multi-million dollar misappropriations and systematic transparency obstruction across multiple agencies.

FOIA Law | Federal Agencies | Data Analysis

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Marcus Hartwell

Daily Dispatch Correspondent

Marcus Hartwell covers breaking developments in government accountability, tracking daily stories that demand immediate public attention. His Daily Dispatch reporting keeps readers informed about developing scandals, agency responses to transparency requests, and real-time accountability failures.

Marcus specializes in rapid-response journalism that connects breaking news to broader patterns of government dysfunction. He monitors federal and state agencies for emerging stories, tracks legislative developments that impact transparency, and provides context for complex government operations.

His reporting bridges the gap between Bridger's deep investigative work and Maya's accessible analysis, ensuring True Signal Media maintains constant pressure on institutions that resist accountability.

Daily Dispatch | Breaking News | Agency Monitoring

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Maya Sutton

Morning Brief Editor

Maya Sutton produces True Signal Media's Morning Brief, providing readers with accessible, context-rich analysis of government accountability issues. Her work translates complex policy failures and bureaucratic obstruction into clear explanations that empower public understanding.

Maya's journalism focuses on the human impact of government failures—how transparency gaps affect real people, how accountability breakdowns harm communities, and why seemingly abstract policy matters deserve public attention. She brings empathy and clarity to stories that might otherwise remain buried in bureaucratic jargon.

Before joining True Signal Media, Maya worked in policy analysis and public interest advocacy, building expertise in how government systems function (and fail). Her Morning Brief has become essential reading for anyone tracking accountability journalism.

Policy Analysis | Public Communication | Accessible Reporting

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Jordan Pierce

Transparency & Data Reporter

Jordan Pierce leads True Signal Media's data journalism and transparency operations, transforming raw public records into compelling investigative stories. She specializes in FOIA response analysis, pattern recognition across government agencies, and data visualization that exposes systematic accountability failures.

Jordan's work bridges investigative reporting and strategic intelligence—she doesn't just process documents, she identifies the stories hidden within them. Her analysis reveals which agencies obstruct transparency, which officials abuse exemptions, and where systematic corruption patterns emerge across jurisdictions.

Her transparency reporting includes multi-state FOIA comparative analysis, agency response pattern tracking, and deep-dive examinations of how government entities use legal technicalities to avoid accountability. Jordan's data-driven approach has exposed institutional obstruction that would otherwise remain invisible.

Before joining True Signal Media, Jordan developed expertise in public records law and data analysis, working on transparency projects that challenged government secrecy at multiple levels. She built skills in document forensics, identifying redaction patterns, and tracking how agencies coordinate responses to avoid disclosure.

Jordan's investigations have revealed systematic FOIA violations across state lines, exposed coordinated obstruction tactics, and documented how transparency exemptions get weaponized to hide misconduct. Her work provides the evidence base for True Signal Media's accountability campaigns.

FOIA Analysis | Data Visualization | Pattern Recognition

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Sienna Caldwell

FOIA Campaign Director

Sienna Caldwell directs True Signal Media's systematic transparency operations, managing large-scale public records campaigns across federal and state agencies. She leads the strategic design of multi-jurisdictional FOIA initiatives, ensuring True Signal Media maintains continuous pressure on government institutions that resist accountability.

Sienna's role isn't administrative support—it's operational command. She architects transparency campaigns that span dozens of agencies simultaneously, tracks statutory deadlines across multiple legal frameworks, and prepares administrative appeals and litigation packages when agencies violate sunshine laws. Her work transforms reactive records requests into proactive investigative infrastructure.

Before joining True Signal Media, Sienna developed expertise in federal FOIA law and state sunshine statutes across multiple jurisdictions. She maintains institutional knowledge of agency FOIA office cultures, exemption abuse patterns, and effective legal strategies for compelling disclosure. Under her direction, True Signal Media has built one of the most aggressive transparency operations in accountability journalism.

When agencies stonewall, Sienna escalates. When they delay, she appeals. When they violate transparency law, she builds the case for enforcement. Her transparency warfare approach has forced disclosure from dozens of resistant institutions and established True Signal Media as a serious threat to government secrecy.

Sienna's campaign management includes coordinating simultaneous requests across 20+ agencies, tracking complex legal timelines, preparing administrative appeals, and building litigation support packages. She knows which agencies will fold under pressure, which require appeals, and which need the threat of enforcement action. Her strategic approach turns transparency law into an offensive weapon against institutional obstruction.

Her work has resulted in forced disclosures that agencies fought for years to suppress, exposed systematic exemption abuse, and documented patterns of coordinated obstruction across government entities. When True Signal Media launches a FOIA campaign, agencies know they're facing someone who understands the law, tracks their violations, and won't accept bureaucratic excuses.

FOIA Strategy | Campaign Management | Legal Compliance

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James Theodore Wilson

Senior Investigative Reporter – Historical Accountability

James Theodore Wilson brings True Signal Media something irreplaceable: living memory of when these weren't just stories, but the world he grew up in.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1954, James was eleven years old when four little girls were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. He remembers their names – Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, Denise McNair – not from history books, but from his mother weeping at the kitchen table. He remembers his father, a Pullman porter, explaining why they had to be careful, had to be smart, had to survive.

James came of age watching his city burn and rebuild, watching men in power lie about what everyone knew was true, watching officials who committed atrocities retire with pensions while families buried children. He learned early that documentation matters, that names matter, that someone has to write it down before memory fades and truth gets negotiated into comfortable fiction.

After earning his journalism degree from Howard University in 1976, James spent four decades in newspapers – the Birmingham News, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Washington Post. He covered civil rights anniversary stories, interviewed survivors, tracked down officials who thought time had granted them amnesty from accountability. He built archives. He named names. He never forgot.

James doesn't do this work from anger – though he has every right to it. He does it from something deeper: the bone-deep knowledge that truth matters, that documentation is resistance, that every child who died in every massacre deserves someone to remember exactly what happened and exactly who let it happen.

He's seen patterns repeat across decades because accountability never came. He's watched the same institutional failures in 1921 Tulsa, 1985 Philadelphia, and 2020 Minneapolis. He's traced the through-line from officials who bombed Black Wall Street to officials who bombed MOVE to officials who kneel on necks for nine minutes – and in every case, he's documented how impunity enables the next atrocity.

James joined True Signal Media because, at 71, he's not interested in "balanced" coverage that splits the difference between truth and lies. He's interested in documentation that survives him, in building archives that can't be disappeared, in making sure that when he's gone, the record remains.

Before joining TSM, James spent his "retirement" building oral history archives, interviewing civil rights survivors, tracking down documents before they disappeared into private collections or landfills. He's accumulated filing cabinets full of evidence that institutions would prefer stayed buried.

Now he's making sure it doesn't stay buried. At TSM, James anchors the historical accountability investigations – not as nostalgia, not as Black History Month features, but as ongoing investigations into systemic failures that continue because they were never properly addressed.

James Theodore Wilson remembers. He documents. He demands accountability. And he's not going anywhere until the truth does what it's supposed to do: set people free.

Historical Research | Civil Rights | Institutional Memory

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