Propublic announced Thursday that Gus García-Roberts has been hired as a national reporter.
García-Roberts arrives in Propublic from the Washington Post, where he published investigations on death by overdose of Los Angeles pitcher Angels Tyler Skaggs; The accusations of sexual abuse against the Dodgers of Los Angeles, Trevor Bauer, and the secret system of Major League Baseball to examine domestic abuse and sexual assault; And how the NFL has failed in the hiring of black coaches, part of a series that the main sports editors of Associated Press for projects and the online journalism awards prize awards in sports reports.
Before joining the publication, García-Roberts worked in research teams in Newsday, Los Angeles Times and USA Today. In Newsday, he was part of the team whose series on hidden police behavior was a finalist of the Pulitzer Award for Public Service. He is the author of “Jimmy The King: Murder, Vice, and the reign of a dirty police” and the “Blood Sport: Alex Rodríguez, biogenesis and the search to end the era of baseball steroids”.
“We are very excited to welcome Gus and their enviable reports and writing skills to Propublic and excited to convert the propublic lens into the world of sports,” said Editor Manager Tracy Weber. “Stay tuned.”
“I am more than excited to be a joint propublic, an institution whose mission and work that I have admired for years,” said García-Roberts. The beginnings next week.
