Business Insider investigative reporter Matt Drange was among the layoffs on Thursday.
“Grateful for the opportunity to publish a wide range of impactful reporting, first on the tech desk, and for the past several years, on the investigations team,” he wrote on LinkedIn.
Drange has reported on money and power in Silicon Valley since 2012. He won SABEW’s Larry Birger Award as the best young business journalist in the country.
Drange previously worked for Protocol, the new Politico-backed publication, and before that The Information, Forbes magazine and the Center for Investigative Reporting. H
Drange’s reporting has sparked Congressional inquiries, led to internal policy changes at Facebook, Google and eBay, prompted a state ethics investigation and spurred cities across the country to ditch contracts with a prominent tech vendor.
In 2016, Drange and his then-colleague, Ryan Mac, revealed that billionaire investor Peter Thiel had secretly bankrolled an invasion of privacy lawsuit that brought Gawker Media to its knees; their reporting served as the foundation for a subsequent Netflix documentary.
Drange received a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Education, where he studied investigative reporting, and graduated from Humboldt State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
