Dan Schwartz is a reporter who specializes in narrative, longform journalism. Sometimes his work is investigative, such as the 18-month-long probe into the American railroad industry that he collaborated on with ProPublica. That project won an Edward R. Murrow, and Dan gave an interview about the work to NPR's Morning Edition. Other times it's expository. Dan seeks stories that he can ground in documents, data, or evidentiary interviews.
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Dan works mostly for magazines these days but started his career at daily papers in Alaska, New Mexico, and Vermont, winning awards along the way for unearthing government corruption and dogging environmental regulators. He honed his craft in a master's program at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he worked as a fellow with the Pulitzer Center and part-time as a researcher for Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Dan has an undergraduate degree in outdoor education. Back in the day, he worked as a mountain guide. He doesn’t guide anymore but has kept his skills sharp, and when he's not writing he may be found outside, depending on the season and topography, backcountry skiing or ice climbing or rock climbing or mountain biking or trail running or, to his mother’s chagrin, dirt biking. She’s right to worry. Motorcycles are dangerous.
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Dan lives with his wife in a 677-square-foot cabin in the Sierras Nevada mountains of California.
