Tom Brune on Washington

Tom Brune

I cover Washington for Newsday, the Long Island, New York, daily and one of the nation’s largest newspapers.  Previously, at the Seattle Times, I reported and wrote special yearlong coverage of Washington state’s battle over affirmative action, which was honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. I have worked as an editor, reporter, data analyst and investigative journalist at the Chicago Sun-Times and The Chicago Reporter, and have written for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor and Chicago Tribune. Howard Wolinsky and I co-authored the book “Serpent on the Staff: The Unhealthy Politics of the American Medical Association,” published by Tarcher/Putnam. I also edited and contributed to collections of articles in “Race and Poverty in Chicago” and “Neglected Neighborhoods.” I have taught classes in computer-assisted reporting in the Washington program at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. I earned a BS in Journalism at Northwestern and an MA in Journalism at Maryland. I live in Takoma Park, Md., with my wife Deborah Nelson, a journalist and associate professor at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. We have two daughters.