By Kevin McCauley
Don Van Natta, a 16-year veteran of the New York Times, is joining ESPN on Jan 1 as senior writer on its investigative team.
As national correspondent for the NYT, Van Natta was a member of a nine-member 2002 Pulitzer Prize winning team that reported on the worldwide threat posed by Al Qaeda.
Rob King, senior VP for ESPN print/digital operations, said Van Natta’s hiring is a “testament to the commitment that ESPN has made to quality cross-platform journalism.”
Van Natta, who will based in Miami, also reported from Washington and London for the Times. Prior to the NYT, he spent eight years at the Miami Herald.
Van Natta is currently working on a book about the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World with NYT London correspondent Sarah Lyall. He also is working on a biography of football coach Sid Gillman.
Van Natta already has written “Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias,” “First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers, and Cheaters from Taft to Bush,” and “Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
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