We’re thrilled to announce that Evelyn Larrubia is becoming a member of The Put up as investigative editor for expertise and enterprise, main a group 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 knowledge. 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 group that rapidly 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 shopper reporting, and Congress has cited each reviews in its efforts to carry expertise firms to account. Working with knowledge reporter Emmanuel Martinez — who’s now at The Put up 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 group has obtained the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists’ Finest Practices Award, the Society of Skilled Journalists’ New America Award and two Edward R. Murrow nationwide awards this 12 months alone.
Earlier than the Markup, Evelyn was government 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 group that produced an award-winning sequence concerning the troubling rise of a for-profit trade 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 retailers 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’s 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 school within the spring.
Please be part of us in welcoming Evelyn to The Put up. Her first day is Nov. 28.
