The Information hires Robinson-Johnson to cover Musk businesses

Evan Robinson-Johnson is joining The Information to cover Tesla, SpaceX and other Elon Musk businesses in its New York bureau.

Robinson-Johnson has been at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where he was a roving tech and business investigations reporter. Last year, he was part of a team that won a Polk award, along with ProPublica, for a joint 2023 investigation into a maker of dangerous CPAP machines for people with sleep apnea. After the story published, the CPAP maker reached an agreement with the federal government to stop selling its machines in the U.S. The story was also a finalist for a Goldsmith award.

For coverage of Nippon Steel’s proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel, Robinson-Johnson and his colleagues won a 2023 SABEW award in the breaking news category. Last year, he also nabbed a scoop closer to his future beat at The Information when he broke a story about a SpaceX supplier in Pittsburgh that was shutting down.

Before the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he worked as an intern and then as a health and education reporter for the Jackson Hole News & Guide in Wyoming, where he braved contentious school board meetings in the midst of COVID-19 mask mandate debates.

Robinson-Johnson has both bachelors and masters degrees in journalism from Northwestern University.

He’s in the process of relocating to New York from Pittsburgh. He will start April 14.