Steve Fainaru

About Me

Steve Fainaru is the interim editor-in-chief of The Bay Citizen. He came to the organization from the Washington Post, where he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series of stories on abuses committed by Blackwater and other private security contractors in Iraq. Fainaru previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Hartford Courant and the Boston Globe. He is the author of two books: "The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba and the Search for the American Dream" and "Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq." He grew up in Marin County and currently lives in El Cerrito.