Former Milwaukee-based data reporter Kevin Crowe has joined The Washington Post as a data reporter embedded with the Climate team, the newspaper has announced.
Crowe, a bilingual journalist who for the last four years worked for the USA Today Investigations team, has written about a variety of subjects, including extreme weather, natural disasters, evictions and ambulance diversions. His work requires utilizing sets of data to identify stories about housing, education, demographics, crime, politics and business.
Prior to his work with USA Today, he was a data reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, inewsource in San Diego and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Crowe will graduate next year with a master’s degree in geography from UW-Madison. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Marquette University. He will work from Puerto Rico, where he lives with his family while maintaining his home base in Wisconsin.