Alec MacGillis

Alec MacGillis is a reporter for ProPublica. A native of Pittsfield, Mass., he worked for six newspapers, including The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post. In 2011, he switched to magazines, at The New Republic, before arriving at ProPublica in 2015. His has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine, among others. A resident of Baltimore, he is the author of The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell and Fulfillment: America in the Shadow of Amazon. He is currently a member of the Watchdog Writers Group at the University of Missouri.