Chris Jones
Senior Researcher, Task Force Butler
2023
Chris Jones is the Senior Researcher of Task Force Butler. After serving in the Marine Corps, Chris worked as a photojournalist for six years covering Afghanistan and the rise of extremism in the United States. In 2020 he became an investigative reporter at 100 Days in Appalachia covering domestic extremism, where his coverage of extremist activity and the Capitol attack on January 6th won a national Edward R Murrow Award. As Senior Researcher, Chris is responsible for training and leading Task Force Butler’s research and development teams.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
