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Jason Paladino

Investigator

Jason Paladino is an investigator at POGO. Previously, he worked at Grid News, where he helped launch the news startup’s investigative team. Prior to that, he worked for POGO as a national security investigative reporter covering military waste, fraud, and abuse. He also served as an investigative fellow at UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program, a nonprofit newsroom.

While at the Investigative Reporting Program, his investigation into a troubled Navy and Marine Corps helicopter program led to the grounding of the fleet and won a variety of top national journalism honors across broadcast and print, including the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting. That reporting laid the foundation for a feature-length documentary film, Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn?, which received accolades at film festivals across the country, and is streaming on Sundance Now. Jason has experience working with whistleblowers from government, law enforcement, and private industry, and is always open to new tips.

Jason’s work has appeared in the Intercept, the Atlantic, the Daily Beast, Grid News, NBC News, Huffington Post, the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal, KQED, the Virginian-Pilot, and more.

Jason is a 2015 graduate of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism with a focus on investigative reporting. He has expertise in the Freedom of Information Act, military aviation and strategy, contracting, federal law enforcement and surveillance technology, and far-right extremism.

Latest Work

  • CIA Drove Spike in Media Leak Investigation Requests Under Trump

    investigation | July 30, 2021

  • Handout for Contractors in Bill to Refurbish Public Shipyards

    analysis | June 7, 2021

  • The Navy Wants to Throw Its Internal Auditor Overboard

    investigation | March 31, 2021

  • How a “Small Business” Kingpin Wins Billions in Defense Contracts

    investigation | February 18, 2021

  • Military Aviation Is in a Tailspin

    analysis | December 17, 2020

  • Dentists Open Wide after Lobbyists Pressure CDC

    investigation | June 25, 2020

  • Millions Turn Out to Protest and the Government Watches from Above

    analysis | June 12, 2020

  • 52 Infected After Navy Fails to Prevent Virus Spread on Ship

    investigation | May 19, 2020

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    January 09, 2020

  • Trump finds nominee for No. 2 DoD personnel official

    January 07, 2020

  • Secrecy News Round-Up

    December 10, 2019

  • Pentagon eyes smaller troop buildup while muddling its message to Congress

    December 06, 2019

  • Defense Going Dark: A Timeline of Secrecy Increases at the Pentagon

    December 05, 2019

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