Bruce Selcraig

About

I've been a professional journalist for more than 40 years, including three as a staff writer for Sports Illustrated and three as a U.S. Senate investigator. I've written for The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harper's, National Geographic and Smithsonian, among many others, and was nominated for a Pulitzer in 2019 by the San Antonio Express-News, my most recent employer. I taught journalism at The University of Texas (Austin) and St. Edward's University) and was on the board of Investigative Reporters & Editors, America's largest journalism organization. My writing projects have included two cover stories for The New York Times Magazine (on New Mexico's Gray Ranch and right-wing activist Rev. Donald Wildmon), investigations of juvenile bootcamps, sterilized banana workers (from pesticides) in Costa Rica, rapacious golf developments in the Third World, police corruption, unsafe Texas chemical plants and numerous investigations of college athletic departments. Two articles I did for SI and Mother Jones were included in winning entries for National Magazine Awards. In the last several years I've branched out from pure investigative projects to do more travel and transportation pieces, business articles, political commentary, golf and basketball.Specialties: I've developed some expertise in areas as varied as chemical plant safety and corporate crime to international child trafficking and pornography rings, money laundering, Mafia involvement in sports and Mexican maquiladoras, as well as, um, playing and writing about Irish golf courses.