Washington Publish enterprise editor Lori Montgomery, deputy enterprise editor Damian Paletta and expertise editor Christina Passariello despatched out the next on Friday:
We’re thrilled to announce that Evelyn Larrubia is becoming a member of The Publish as investigative editor for expertise and enterprise, main a workforce of reporters who ship revelatory journalism concerning the affect of cash and expertise on our authorities and our world.
Evelyn brings years of expertise enhancing accountability and investigative journalism, typically constructed on inventive evaluation of unique information. She joins us after three years as managing editor of investigations on the Markup, a nonprofit newsroom based in 2018 to analyze how highly effective establishments use expertise to form society. There, Evelyn constructed an investigative workforce that shortly produced groundbreaking work, together with penetrating reviews on self-dealing by Google and Amazon. The latter was honored final month with a Gerald Loeb Award for private finance and client reporting, and Congress has cited each reviews in its efforts to carry expertise firms to account. Working with information reporter Emmanuel Martinez — who’s now at The Publish himself — Evelyn produced a report revealing bias in mortgage-approval algorithms that led to a historic multi-agency initiative to fight discrimination in mortgage lending. Along with the Loeb, Evelyn’s workforce has obtained the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists’ Greatest Practices Award, the Society of Skilled Journalists’ New America Award and two Edward R. Murrow nationwide awards this yr alone.
Earlier than the Markup, Evelyn was govt editor of public radio’s “Market” and led information and investigations at KPCC, the NPR information station in Los Angeles. She additionally spent a dozen years as a reporter for the Los Angeles Instances, the place she was a part of a workforce that produced an award-winning sequence concerning the troubling rise of a for-profit business round court-appointed guardianships for the aged. She started her profession in South Florida on the Miami Herald and the Solar-Sentinel, writing about crime, hurricanes and lethal beauty surgical procedure; she additionally produced an investigative sequence about pawn outlets that gained a Livingston Award. In 2017, CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California named her Latina Journalist of the Yr.
The kid of Cuban exiles, Evelyn grew up in Miami and earned a bachelor’s diploma in journalism from the College of South Florida. In 2010, she was a Knight Fellow at Stanford College. She is going to work initially from Los Angeles, the place she spends her free time mountaineering the city wilderness and checking in on her son, who expects to graduate from faculty within the spring
Please be a part of us in welcoming Evelyn to The Publish. Her first day is Nov. 28.
