About
I’m a data and investigative journalist at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where I mine records and documents to surface stories that serve the public interest.
My reporting has covered a wide range of topics, from dark money in elections to toxic dust in coal mines to the fallout of falling vaccination rates. That work has won state and national awards, including from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Association of Health Care Journalists, and the Association of Business Journalists, along with recognition from multiple local and state press groups.
Before the Post-Gazette, I was a reporter at OpenSecrets, a nonprofit newsroom covering the influence of money in U.S. politics.
I earned a master’s in investigative reporting from the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University and a bachelor’s in English literature from Virginia Commonwealth University. I also taught high school and spent two years in Armenia with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching English to primary school students in a village near the Turkish border.
I was born in Québec, Canada, but I grew up a thousand miles south in the suburbs outside of Richmond, Va.
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I welcome tips about corporate and government wrongdoing. The best tips come with corroborating evidence, such as data, documents, and firsthand testimony.
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Reach me at jrcloutier.92.