Andy Kroll is a national reporter for ProPublica, a news organization that investigates abuses of power and publishes journalism in the public interest.

His first book is A DEATH ON W STREET: THE MURDER OF SETH RICH AND THE AGE OF CONSPIRACY, a nonfiction page-turner about the life and murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich, the rise of conspiracy theories in American politics, and the Rich family’s battle to defend the truth — by suing the most powerful media organization in the world, Fox News.

Andy is the former Washington bureau chief for Rolling Stone. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The California Sunday Magazine, New York, and The Atlantic.

Andy has spent much of his career writing about the nexus of politics, money, power, and democracy. His reporting has sparked federal probes, congressional investigations, and been cited in national and international news outlets, academic papers, and briefs submitted to the US Supreme Court.

The Society of Professional Journalists-NorCal named him its outstanding emerging journalist for 2012, and his money-in-politics reporting was cited as part of Mother Jones' 2013 Izzy Award awarded by Ithaca College. In 2011 he reported from China with the support of Middlebury College's Fellowship in Environmental Journalism program. While at Mother Jones, the magazine earned three National Magazine Award nominations for general excellence, winning in 2010. He also contributed to MoJo's 2009 "Climate Countdown" package, which won the James Aronson award for social justice journalism.

Andy lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and two spoiled cats. He grew up in Portage, Michigan, and is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan.