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Mary Pilon
Mary Pilon (born 16 May 1986 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American journalist and filmmaker who primarily covers sports and business. A regular contributor to the New Yorker and Bloomberg Businessweek, her books are The Monopolists (2015), The Kevin Show (2018), Losers: Dispatches From the Other Side of the Scoreboard (2020, with Louisa Thomas), and The Longest Race, co-authored with Olympian Kara Goucher. She has also worked as a staff reporter covering sports for The New York Times and business at The Wall Street Journal and has also written and produced for Vice, Esquire, NBC News, among other outlets.
At the Times, Pilon authored a story that was the first-ever graphic novel for the paper and its first audiobook, "Tomato Can Blues," a true-crime story of Charles Rowan; it was narrated by actor Bobby Cannavale.
She is an adjunct professor at NYU's Carter Institute of Journalism, where she teaches a graduate-level investigative reporting class.
Born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, Pilon attended Winston Churchill High School. She first reported for her hometown newspaper, The Register-Guard, as a teenager. She then attended New York University, as a member of the graduating class of 2008 with a degree in politics and journalism. Pilon's senior thesis on the people and politics of methamphetamine trafficking won the school's Edwin Diamond Award.
Pilon has worked for Dow Jones, USA Today and New York Magazine and, from 2006 to 2008, Gawker. From 2008 to 2011, she reported for the Wall Street Journal Money and Investing Section on finance and Wall Street during the 2008 financial crisis, one of the youngest reporters on staff. She won the 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for her coverage of the 2010 Flash Crash.
At the Times, Pilon wrote "Tomato Can Blues," a true-crime story of Charles Rowan, an amateur cage fighter who faked his own death. The story was the first-ever graphic novel for the paper and the first audiobook, narrated by actor Bobby Cannavale.
Pilon's 2016 investigative reporting on sexual harassment in the trucking industry helped fuel a class action lawsuit by women truckers. In reporting on the NFL's domestic violence policies for Bleacher Report/CNN the next year, the writer found that the league seldom enforced its own policies. She has also reported on the circumstances surrounding runner Steve Prefontaine`s death for ESPN's Grantland. She also was among the first to report on Donald Trump's immigrant mother in June 2016. At Vice, Pilon reported on legal issues faced by transgender high school athletes and at NBC News, how coaches accused of sexual abuse continued to work in sports.
Her New Yorker contributions focus on the legal and financial aspects of sports. Pilon has also written for Vice, Esquire, Fast Company, Smithsonian magazine, and NBC Sports.
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Mary Pilon
Mary Pilon (born 16 May 1986 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American journalist and filmmaker who primarily covers sports and business. A regular contributor to the New Yorker and Bloomberg Businessweek, her books are The Monopolists (2015), The Kevin Show (2018), Losers: Dispatches From the Other Side of the Scoreboard (2020, with Louisa Thomas), and The Longest Race, co-authored with Olympian Kara Goucher. She has also worked as a staff reporter covering sports for The New York Times and business at The Wall Street Journal and has also written and produced for Vice, Esquire, NBC News, among other outlets.
At the Times, Pilon authored a story that was the first-ever graphic novel for the paper and its first audiobook, "Tomato Can Blues," a true-crime story of Charles Rowan; it was narrated by actor Bobby Cannavale.
She is an adjunct professor at NYU's Carter Institute of Journalism, where she teaches a graduate-level investigative reporting class.
Born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, Pilon attended Winston Churchill High School. She first reported for her hometown newspaper, The Register-Guard, as a teenager. She then attended New York University, as a member of the graduating class of 2008 with a degree in politics and journalism. Pilon's senior thesis on the people and politics of methamphetamine trafficking won the school's Edwin Diamond Award.
Pilon has worked for Dow Jones, USA Today and New York Magazine and, from 2006 to 2008, Gawker. From 2008 to 2011, she reported for the Wall Street Journal Money and Investing Section on finance and Wall Street during the 2008 financial crisis, one of the youngest reporters on staff. She won the 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for her coverage of the 2010 Flash Crash.
At the Times, Pilon wrote "Tomato Can Blues," a true-crime story of Charles Rowan, an amateur cage fighter who faked his own death. The story was the first-ever graphic novel for the paper and the first audiobook, narrated by actor Bobby Cannavale.
Pilon's 2016 investigative reporting on sexual harassment in the trucking industry helped fuel a class action lawsuit by women truckers. In reporting on the NFL's domestic violence policies for Bleacher Report/CNN the next year, the writer found that the league seldom enforced its own policies. She has also reported on the circumstances surrounding runner Steve Prefontaine`s death for ESPN's Grantland. She also was among the first to report on Donald Trump's immigrant mother in June 2016. At Vice, Pilon reported on legal issues faced by transgender high school athletes and at NBC News, how coaches accused of sexual abuse continued to work in sports.
Her New Yorker contributions focus on the legal and financial aspects of sports. Pilon has also written for Vice, Esquire, Fast Company, Smithsonian magazine, and NBC Sports.