Matt Drange

Matt Drange was a reporter based out of Business Insider's San Francisco bureau. Matt previously covered money and power in Silicon Valley for The Information, Forbes magazine and the Center for Investigative Reporting. He's received numerous journalism awards and most recently was recognized as a finalist for the Livingston Award for National Reporting. In 2019, Matt was named the best young business journalist in the country by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW). He sits on SABEW's First Amendment Committee as well as the Freedom of Information Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists, northern California chapter. Matt's work has been published by ProPublica, The Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle, Pacific Standard and elsewhere. He holds a master's degree from the Columbia Journalism School and teaches journalism at Oakland's Laney College and at Cal Poly Humboldt.

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Notable articles:

An epidemic of sexual abuse in schools: Shoddy investigations, quiet resignations, and a culture of secrecy have protected predators, not students.

The predators’ playground: Unraveling 40 years of sexual misconduct at a single California high school

He was my high school journalism teacher. Then I investigated his relationships with teenage girls. 

Apple agrees to "make improvements" to its NDAs after whistleblower documents showed evidence the company used the agreements to silence employees

'A gag order for life': How tech giants use secretive legal contracts for their employees to create a culture of silence in Silicon Valley