Larrubia, biz and tech investigations editor, departs Washington Post

Evelyn Larrubia, the business and technology investigations senior editor at The Washington Post, was among the layoffs this week.

She joined in October 2021, leading a team of reporters who deliver revelatory journalism about the influence of money and technology on our government and our world.

Larrubia previously spent three years as managing editor of investigations at the Markup, a nonprofit newsroom founded in 2018 to investigate how powerful institutions use technology to shape society.

Her  team at Markup received the National Association of Black Journalists’ Best Practices Award, the Society of Professional Journalists’ New America Award and two Edward R. Murrow national awards, as well as a Gerald Loeb Award.

Before the Markup, Larrubia was executive editor of public radio’s “Marketplace” and led news and investigations at KPCC, the NPR news station in Los Angeles. She also spent a dozen years as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she was part of a team that produced an award-winning series about the troubling rise of a for-profit industry around court-appointed guardianships for the elderly.

She began her career in South Florida at the Miami Herald and the Sun-Sentinel, writing about crime, hurricanes and deadly cosmetic surgery; she also produced an investigative series about pawn shops that won a Livingston Award.

Larrubia earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of South Florida. In 2010, she was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University.