Forbes hires Drange to cover tech

Matt Drange, a reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting, has been hired by Forbes.

Drange will be based in the San Francisco bureau, covering tech and money and power in Silicon Valley.

He currently covers Silicon Valley for the Center for Investigative Reporting, a position he has held since September 2012. Before moving to the Bay Area, he covered politics for the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. Drange started his career at the Eureka Times-Standard.

Drange was a Loeb finalist in 2015 in the explanatory reporting category, and he won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Award for his coverage of Superfund sites in Silicon Valley.

The judges wrote Drange “followed the path of contaminants unearthed at Superfund sites, charting how sludge generated at one Silicon Valley site crisscrosses the United States … often creating more waste along the way, including cancer-causing dioxins. Some of it even finds its way back to Silicon Valley, where it originated decades ago. The findings challenged conventional wisdom about the Superfund program and attracted much-needed attention.”

Drange has degrees from Humboldt State University in California and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.