Albert Samaha will join The Washington Post as a sports investigative reporter on Aug. 7. He will be based in New York.
Recently, Samaha served as a senior reporter at BuzzFeed, a role in which he covered how people navigate global inequalities. During more than eight years there, he held the posts of criminal justice reporter, investigative reporter, deputy inequality editor and inequality editor.
He also wrote for SF Weekly, Village Voice and Riverfront Times.
As per the Post:
His most recent book, “Concepcion,” a memoir of his Philippine-American family’s immigration experience, was a finalist for a 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a 2023 New America national fellow and an alum of the Pop-Up Magazine stage, and his work has been honored and cited by the Livingston Awards, the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, the “Best American Travel Writing” and “Best American Sports Writing” anthology series, and others.
An award-winning investigative reporter, Samaha has a B.A. from the University of San Diego and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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