Michael J. Mishak is a senior editor at ProPublica, where he helps oversee investigative projects in the Local Reporting Network. Previously, he was deputy editor of Newsweek, where he worked with writers from Washington to Mexico to Moscow to conceive and edit political commentary, foreign policy analysis, and long-form narratives.

Before editing, he was an investigative reporter at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, where his probe of state insurance commissioners was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism, and the winner of an Online News Association Award. Another of his investigations, about the surprising power the oil industry wields in California, won SABEW, National Headliner, and National Edward R. Murrow awards. His work appeared in The Washington Post, Politico Magazine, The Nation, and the New Republic.

Mishak covered the 2016 presidential campaign for National Journal and the Associated Press, writing award-winning deep dives on Jeb Bush's ties to Miami's Cuban community and Hillary Clinton's strained relationship with blue-collar voters. Prior to that, he was a statehouse reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where he revealed how Gov. Jerry Brown fired regulators who balked at relaxing key rules for oil companies.

Before moving to Sacramento, Mishak covered politics and labor for the Las Vegas Sun, where he contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning series about construction worker deaths on the Strip and interviewed then-longshot candidate Barack Obama in a suite at Caesars Palace.

He is a co-director of the Princeton University Summer Journalism Program, a 10-day journalism and college admissions program for low-income high school students. He lives in Brooklyn.