Laura McGann

Laura McGann is TPMmuckraker.com's Washington reporter. She first started raking muck way back in 2006 as a graduate journalism fellow, when she exposed an anti-terrorism data mining scheme run by the Department of Education and the FBI. In April 2007, Scripps Howard gave her a "distinguished service to the First Amendment" finalist commendation for uncovering the program.

McGann’s stories have appeared on the Dow Jones Newswires, where she covered bankruptcy, and the Associated Press’ national wire, as well as in The Wall Street Journal and other newspapers.

She graduated from a joint master’s degree program with the Northwestern University School of Law and the Medill School of Journalism in 2006. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from UC San Diego.

Originally from Southern California, she now lives in Washington where she enjoys jogging around the National Mall, sampling happy hours and meticulously decorating cookies.