16 Facts About Richard Read

Richard Read was born on 1957 and is a freelance reporter based in Seattle, where he was a national reporter and bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times from 2019 to 2021.

Richard Read won his first Pulitzer in 1999, The Oregonian's first in 42 years, for explaining the Asian financial crisis by following a container of french fries from a Northwest farm to the Far East, in a series that ended with riots presaging the Fall of Suharto.

Richard Read grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he and several grade-school friends founded a newspaper called The Old Rabbit.

Richard Read graduated in 1980 from Amherst College, where he edited The Amherst Student newspaper.

Richard Read was press secretary in 1980 for the Ward Commission, a Massachusetts crime commission that exposed widespread corruption and proposed reforms including campaign-finance legislation whose design he oversaw.

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Richard Read moved to Portland in 1981 to become a reporter for The Oregonian.

Richard Read was selected by the Eisenhower Fellowships for a month's reporting in Peru in 1998, interviewing President Alberto Fujimori.

Richard Read left The Oregonian in 2016 after taking a buyout, leaving words of advice to colleagues.

In 2016, Richard Read joined the public-interest investigative reporting team at NerdWallet, a San Francisco company that helps consumers navigate personal finance.

In 2019, Richard Read became a national reporter and Seattle bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, covering Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Hawaii.

Richard Read retired from the Los Angeles Times in September, 2021.

Richard Read won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 1999 for a series that dramatized the global effects of the Asian financial crisis through the movement of a container of french fries from a Washington-state farm to a McDonald's restaurant in Singapore.

In 2009, Richard Read was a member of a team named as a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for reports on a breakthrough in production of microprocessors.

Richard Read won first-place awards for reporting on social issues, business, spot news, education from the Pacific Northwest Society of Professional Journalists.

In 2018, Richard Read received the National Press Club's Consumer Journalism Award for periodicals, awarded to NerdWallet for his investigation of US Agriculture Department failings in policing the $43 billion organic food industry.

Richard Read is a frequent public speaker whose work has been cited in several books.