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. It tells the story of the murder of a young political staffer, the explosion 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.

He is currently working on a second book, a historical true-crime saga set in the 1960s and ‘70s about the improbable rise and bloody downfall of the kingpin of the booming American porn industry.

Andy is the former Washington bureau chief for Rolling Stone magazine. 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, and power. 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.

He co-reported the three-part podcast “We Don’t Talk About Leonard,” which won the 2024 Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Reporting and a duPont-Columbia Award in 2025. His reporting on Christian nationalism and the 2024 election was a finalist for the Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting.

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