Evan Robinson Johnson is rejoining the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as a Washington correspondent covering health care, tech, steel and other policies affecting western Pennsylvania.
He previously was at The Information covering Tesla, SpaceX and other Elon Musk businesses.
Robinson Johnson had been at the 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.
Robinson Johnson has both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University.
