Maria Crane is a multimedia journalist working for the Fort Worth Report in partnership with Catchlight Local and Report for America. Crane is based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Crane has worked for previous pulications such as The Texas Tribune and the Denton Record-Chronicle, and worked as the photo editor for the North Texas Daily and served as the managing editor of Hatch Visuals, a student-run photo agency at the University of North Texas.

Crane holds a bachelors in photojournalism and policial science from the University of North Texas and a Masters of Journalism from the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism.