The Information hires Robinson-Johnson to cover Musk businesses

Evan Robinson-Johnson is becoming a member of The Data to cowl Tesla, SpaceX and different Elon Musk companies in its New York bureau.

Robinson-Johnson has been on the Pittsburgh Submit-Gazette, the place he was a roving tech and enterprise investigations reporter. Final yr, he was a part of a staff that gained a Polk award, together with ProPublica, for a joint 2023 investigation right into a maker of harmful CPAP machines for folks with sleep apnea. After the story printed, the CPAP maker reached an agreement with the federal authorities to cease promoting its machines within the U.S. The story was additionally a finalist for a Goldsmith award.

For protection of Nippon Metal’s proposed acquisition of U.S. Metal, Robinson-Johnson and his colleagues won a 2023 SABEW award within the breaking information class. Final yr, he additionally nabbed a scoop nearer to his future beat at The Data when he broke a story a couple of SpaceX provider in Pittsburgh that was shutting down.

Earlier than the Pittsburgh Submit-Gazette, he labored as an intern after which as a well being and training reporter for the Jackson Gap Information & Information in Wyoming, the place he braved contentious college board conferences within the midst of COVID-19 masks mandate debates.

Robinson-Johnson has each bachelors and masters levels in journalism from Northwestern College.

He’s within the means of relocating to New York from Pittsburgh. He’ll begin April 14.