13 Facts About Ian Urbina

Ian Urbina was born on March 29,1972 and is an American investigative reporter who has written for a variety of outlets, including The New York Times and The Atlantic.

Ian Urbina has degrees in history from Georgetown University and the University of Chicago.

Ian Urbina was outreach editor at the Middle East Research and Information Project from 2000 to 2003.

In 2008, Ian Urbina was a member of the team of reporters that broke the story about the New York governor, Eliot Spitzer, and his use of prostitutes, a series of stories for which the Times staff won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for breaking news.

In 2011, Ian Urbina wrote a series "Drilling Down" about the oil and gas industry and fracking.

Ian Urbina left The New York Times in May 2019 to found the non-profit journalism organization, The Outlaw Ocean Project.

In 2015, Ian Urbina wrote a series called "The Outlaw Ocean" about lawlessness on the high seas.

In 2019, Urbina created Synesthesia Media and recruited hundreds of musicians from more than 80 countries for his Outlaw Ocean Music Project.

In 2021, Urbina was accused by musicians of exploiting recording artists through the Outlaw Ocean Music Project.

Musician Benn Jordan claimed Urbina kept most of the revenue from the Outlaw Ocean Music Project for himself and his company, Synesthesia Media.

Ian Urbina was listed on streaming services as co-author of more than 2,000 songs by more than 400 artists in the project.

Musicians shared emails showing that Urbina had solicited them through his New York Times email address for the project, when he was no longer at The Times, and that Urbina had not disclosed that Synesthesia was in fact owned by him.

Ian Urbina responded that he did not profit from the project.