I’m TREVOR BACH, a journalist usually in Los Angeles.

I’m interested in different places, people and things, but my work often focuses on American culture, politics and social and environmental issues. I’m also drawn to intriguing characters and surprising or complicated narratives, and I sometimes report in Spanish.

I’ve written feature stories of various lengths for the Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, VICE, Salon, the Christian Science Monitor, the Village Voice, and many other outlets, and I’ve reported from around the U.S. on some of the biggest news stories of the past decade, including the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 racial justice protests and the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath. My feature writing has been highlighted in places like Longreads, RealClear Investigations, the Politico Playbook, Sitdown Sunday and the CityLab Newsletter, and some of my stories have been syndicated in newspapers around the world.

I was recently a Los Angeles reporter for The Real Deal, the country’s leading real estate news publication, where I covered Greater L.A.’s residential market and California development and housing policy; I also wrote magazine features on the region’s most influential real estate players, issues and controversies and developed a particular interest in the state’s numerous housing battles and an emerging development tactic called builder’s remedy.

I was previously a staff writer for Miami New Times, where I covered general news and wrote feature stories about a spate of boating deaths, abuse at an ICE detention facility, the Chinkungunya mosquito virus and Salvadoran war criminals, among other things. Before that I was also a reporting fellow at the Point Reyes Light, in Northern California.

My work has won awards from the Society for Professional Journalists, National Association of Real Estate Editors, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, Florida Press Association, Florida Press Club and California Press Association, and I graduated with honors from the Columbia Journalism School.

I grew up in semi-rural Michigan but have since lived a bunch of other places and traveled to many more, sometimes to report stories. I’ve also worked as a tennis pro, English teacher and fruit picker, although that didn’t last too long.

https://trevorbach.com/