I’m an award-winning reporter and editor who has covered the most powerful and important institutions in the United States, including the White House, Congress and federal courts. 

My many beats, projects and missions have taken me into the middle of the most contentious battles defining the early 21st century, from climate change to election interference and the Trump presidency.

I'm an expert on the Clean Air Act and many more policy topics, including infrastructure, cybersecurity, sexual assault in the military, presidential impeachments, the Mueller special counsel investigation and currently the combination of the Trump legal docket and 2024 presidential campaign. 

I’ve been tapped by some of the most savvy digital media companies in the US to help them launch big new things: E&ETV’s On Point, E&E News PM edition and ClimateWire, plus Politico Pro, The Agenda, Insider’s Washington DC bureau and The Messenger.

I joined USA Today in the spring of 2024 as its Congress & Campaigns editor.

I’m also the author of love, journalism and host of The love, journalism Show.

My work has inspired late night comedy bits for Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Saturday Night Live. My life once got turned into a graphic novel. Rudy Giuliani also butt dialed me.

In the Pacific Northwest, I covered the outdoors, travel and entertainment for The Olympian, a dream job if there ever was one.

After college, I freelanced for The New York Times at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics and for Relix Magazine on the Tokyo Deadhead scene.

I graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and grew up splitting time between South Florida and Chicago. I went to college on a golf caddy scholarship and include among my prior jobs taxi driver, English teacher in Japan, Baskin Robbins scooper and Chuck E. Cheese.

I wrote a humor column for my high school newspaper, The Lariat, waging a successful three-year campaign for prom king.