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David Epstein

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David Epstein is currently a staff writer at Sports Illustrated, which gave him temporary leave to come to ProPublica. Before Sports Illustrated, he was a reporter at Washington, D.C.-based Inside Higher Ed, an online publication where he covered colleges, with a focus on science education policy. Prior to that, David covered crime for the New York Daily News. His work has appeared in a variety of national publications, including Scientific American and U.S. News and World Report, and he has appeared on a range of television shows and networks from the Newshour with Jim Lehrer to CNN and the NFL Network. In 2008, for an article on sudden death in athletes, David received the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association’s Big Hearted Journalism Award and was nominated for a national magazine award. David has lived on a ship in the Pacific Ocean and in the Arctic, and has master’s degrees from Columbia University in environmental science and journalism.

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