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Cybersecurity publication README hires Sobczak as ME

October 15, 2021

Posted by Chris Roush

Blake Sobczak

Blake Sobczak has been hired as managing editor of README, a new digital cybersecurity publication.

He will start Oct. 25. He has been deputy editor for Energywire, part of E&E News at Politic, for the past two years.

Sobczak had been a reporter for E&E News for six years before that, writing about efforts to secure the electric grid from hackers and other threats. He also closely tracked the crude-by-rail business since 2013, reporting on the scene of multiple oil train derailments.

He won a SABEW Best in Business award for his 2019 investigation of a cyberattack on a Saudi Arabian petrochemical facility.

He previously interned for the Associated Press.

Sobczak is a graduate of Northwestern University.

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