1. Mary Pilon has worked as a staff reporter covering sports for The New York Times and business at The Wall Street Journal and has written and produced for Vice, Esquire, NBC News, among other outlets.
17 Facts About Mary Pilon
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At the Times, Pilon authored a story that was the first-ever graphic novel for the paper and its first audiobook, "Tomato Can Blues," a true-crime story of Charles Rowan; it was narrated by actor Bobby Cannavale.
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Mary Pilon is an adjunct professor at NYU's Carter Institute of Journalism, where she teaches a graduate-level investigative reporting class.
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Mary Pilon first reported for her hometown newspaper, The Register-Guard, as a teenager.
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Mary Pilon then attended New York University, as a member of the graduating class of 2008 with a degree in politics and journalism.
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Mary Pilon has worked for Dow Jones, USA Today and New York Magazine and, from 2006 to 2008, Gawker.
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Mary Pilon won the 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for her coverage of the 2010 Flash Crash.
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At the Times, Mary Pilon wrote "Tomato Can Blues," a true-crime story of Charles Rowan, an amateur cage fighter who faked his own death.
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Mary Pilon has reported on the circumstances surrounding runner Steve Prefontaine`s death for ESPN's Grantland.
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Mary Pilon was among the first to report on Donald Trump's immigrant mother in June 2016.
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Mary Pilon has written for Vice, Esquire, Fast Company, Smithsonian magazine, and NBC Sports.
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Mary Pilon spent more than five years investigating the game's origins, which date back to feminist Lizzie Magie and the Progressive Era.
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Mary Pilon has appeared in and produced several documentaries, including HBO's Class Action Park.
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Mary Pilon served as story editor for HBO's BS High in 2023, which was a Tribeca Film Festival Selection.
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Mary Pilon is co-directing a documentary about pickleball for Peter Berg's Film 45.
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Mary Pilon has cited her upbringing in Eugene and early love of comic books among her inspirations.
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Mary Pilon took a Greyhound to New York City and now lives in Brooklyn.