Tag: Investigative reporting

NBC News published my analysis of the post-presidency scene at Trump properties

“Trump’s Florida clubs remain a must stop for Republican stars and hopefuls alike”

Also, I recently shared some of my 1100 Pennsylvania’s reporting on Matt Gaetz’s campaign finance issues with Suzanne Rowan Kelleher for Forbes:

“Matt Gaetz’s travel records don’t do what he claims they do”

Mother Jones, NBC News published my reporting on the Trump Organization

Mother Jones‘s September/October 2020 issue featured my package on the Trump Hotel D.C.:

And in January 2021 NBC News’s opinion section, Think, published “Trump’s leaving office now — and businesses are leaving him. Can his toxic brand survive?”

Forbes reporter’s book highlights 1100 Pennsylvania’s work

Published in September, White House, Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a Business by Dan Alexander of Forbes (Portfolio) spent a couple pages describing 1100 Pennsylvania’s genesis and sharing some of its findings.

Dan’s investigative reporting on the Trump Org is a must-read; his book is no exception.

Discussing the state of Trump’s business on Trump, Inc.

Last month it was honor to appear again on ProPublica and WNYC’s Trump. Inc podcast. This time it was for a half-hour chat with host Andrea Bernstein and David Fahrenthold of The Washington Post about the state of the Trump Organization now that its leader has lost his government side hustle.

And in the past five weeks, I’ve had a few other TV and radio appearances that aren’t available online:

  • spoke with the London-based radio stations LBC and LBC News a few times to report on the recent turmoil in D.C.
  • chatted on WAMU, D.C. public radio, about the future of Trump’s D.C. hotel

New York Times cited 1100 Pennsylvania as a key source for its deep dive on Trump’s D.C. hotel

The New York Times’s blockbuster investigation last fall of how Trump “earned millions as a gatekeeper to his own administration” relied on 1100 Pennsylvania:

“The Swamp That Trump Built” by Nicholas Confessore, Karen Yourish, Steve Eder, Ben Protess, Maggie Haberman, Grace Ashford, Michael LaForgia, Kenneth P. Vogel, Michael Rothfeld, and Larry Buchanan

Other recent articles that cited 1100 Pennsylvania’s reporting on the Trump Organization include

And going back to a previous job, my reporting for Eater Louisville popped up in the book Classic Restaurants of Louisville by Stephen Hacker.

My Trump Hotel D.C. feature for ‘Condé Nast Traveler’ took top honors for investigative reporting in Lowell Thomas competition

My 5,550-word look at the Trump Hotel D.C. for Condé Nast Traveler, “Inside the World’s Most Controversial Hotel,” just took top honors for travel news/investigative reporting in the 2018–2019 Society of American Travel Writers Foundation’s Lowell Thomas awards.

Here’s what the judges, faculty members at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, said about the article:

Zach Everson uses the allure of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., to draw readers into its darker corners where its questionable position in the president’s portfolio is fully explored. The reporter uses the full range of strategies and techniques to show how messy the relationship is between the leader of the free world and a hotel perfectly situated to benefit from his status. What a rare combination of vivid, witty writing and solid investigation this is. Bravo.

Thirty-four other articles were entered in that category. The competition is open to all North American journalists.

The awards, recognized as the most prestigious in travel journalism, were announced Oct. 21 in El Paso, Texas. They are named for Lowell Thomas, a broadcast journalist and author.

Thanks to everyone at Condé Nast Traveler who worked on the article, especially Pilar Guzmán, Laura Redman, Brad Rickman, and Alex Postman for their insightful edits, and Luke Zaleski and Carey Dunne for helpful queries and a thorough fact check. Thanks also to everyone who made time to speak with me or pass along tips for the piece.