[5] While in Seattle, he was also part of a reporting team that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News for coverage of a mudslide that killed 43 people.
[6] He joined the Houston Chronicle in 2014 as a reporter based in the Austin Bureau, focused on government and politics, and health and human services.
The investigation led the state to change its special education system, resulting in more than 100,000 more students receiving needed services.
He won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for exposing how leaders of the New York City taxi industry profited from predatory loans that shattered the lives of vulnerable cabdrivers.
[18] He lives in New York with his wife,[19] Millie Tran, who is the chief digital content officer at the Council on Foreign Relations.