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Evan Hill
We are pleased to announce that Evan Hill is joining the Investigative Unit as a member of the Rapid Response Team. Evan comes to us from the New York Times, where he shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, two George Polk awards and two Emmys for work that combined traditional reporting with open-source methods and techniques.
Before joining the Times, Evan worked at Human Rights Watch in Beirut, overseeing research related to Egypt. Evan has also worked as a correspondent for the Times of London in Cairo and as a staff writer for Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar. His reporting from the Middle East has appeared in Foreign Policy, the Atlantic and the Economist. He got his start covering criminal courts in San Francisco, including the office of then-District Attorney Kamala Harris.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.