George Joseph was an investigative reporter for WNYC/Gothamist, focusing on law enforcement corruption, misconduct, and surveillance technology. He now reports for the New York City news publication, The City.

His first major series uncovered secret lists of police misconduct, maintained by prosecutors' offices across New York City. The series won the New York Associated Press Association's First Amendment award and prompted a federal court monitor to order the NYPD to incorporate such lists into a red flag algorithm for misconduct. Police misconduct records uncovered through that project also contributed to the dismissal of a man's conviction following drug planting allegations.

His next major series investigated allegations of rampant police corruption in Mount Vernon, New York, a city just north of the Bronx in Westchester County. The reporting drew on secret recordings made by a whistleblower and dozens of interviews with police officers, drug dealers, and former prosecutors. The series resulted in the disbandment of the Mount Vernon Police Department’s narcotics unit. It also became the major campaign issue in the 2020 Westchester Democratic District Attorney primary, which resulted in the ouster of a sitting District Attorney.

Joseph's last project examined the role of the New York City court sytem in exacerbating deadly conditions on Rikers Island during the COVID-19 pandemic.