Author: Zach

Discussing the state of Trump’s business on Trump, Inc.

Last month it was honor to appear again on ProPublica and WNYC’s Trump. Inc podcast. This time it was for a half-hour chat with host Andrea Bernstein and David Fahrenthold of The Washington Post about the state of the Trump Organization now that its leader has lost his government side hustle.

And in the past five weeks, I’ve had a few other TV and radio appearances that aren’t available online:

  • spoke with the London-based radio stations LBC and LBC News a few times to report on the recent turmoil in D.C.
  • chatted on WAMU, D.C. public radio, about the future of Trump’s D.C. hotel

New York Times cited 1100 Pennsylvania as a key source for its deep dive on Trump’s D.C. hotel

The New York Times’s blockbuster investigation last fall of how Trump “earned millions as a gatekeeper to his own administration” relied on 1100 Pennsylvania:

“The Swamp That Trump Built” by Nicholas Confessore, Karen Yourish, Steve Eder, Ben Protess, Maggie Haberman, Grace Ashford, Michael LaForgia, Kenneth P. Vogel, Michael Rothfeld, and Larry Buchanan

Other recent articles that cited 1100 Pennsylvania’s reporting on the Trump Organization include

And going back to a previous job, my reporting for Eater Louisville popped up in the book Classic Restaurants of Louisville by Stephen Hacker.

More media mentions for 1100 Pennsylvania

Here are a few outlets that recently cited 1100 Pennsylvania’s reporting:

I’ve also made a few live hits on LBC, a London-based national radio station.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, 1100 Pennsylvania is donating 25 percent of all subscription revenue to the Restaurant Workers Relief Program.

The Lee Initiative, founded by James Beard Award winner Edward Lee, and Maker’s Mark’s Restaurant Workers Relief Program have “turned restaurants across the country into relief centers with local chefs for any restaurant worker who has been laid off or has had a significant reduction in hours and/or pay.” It offers help for those in need of food and supplies, packing hundreds of to-go meals a night.

Now in 19 cities across the country, the program has served more than 150,000 meals.

You can learn more about The Lee Initiative and donate too at leeinitiative.org.

1100 Pennsylvania brings more MSNBC appearances, freelance articles, media references

While not as busy as the Trump Hotel D.C..’s lobby, the past couple of months have been eventful for reporting on the hotel’s customers.

Earlier this winter, I shared some of 1100 Pennsylvania’s reporting in prime time on MSNBC with “All in with Chris Hayes.”

And then a few weeks later I was back on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” speaking with guest host Ayman Mohyeldin.

I also contributed a couple of articles recently to some other outlets:

Published this January, American Oligarchs by Trump, Inc. cohost Andrea Bernstein (W.W. Norton & Company) spent a couple pages describing how 1100 Pennsylvania came to be. (The book is a must-read for understanding how the Trump and Kusher family businesses have operated and putting them into the greater context of American politics).

Additionally, 1100 Pennsylvania’s reporting was cited by The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Daily Beast, The Daily Mail, The Hartford Courant, Inside Edition, The New York Times, The Palm Beach Post, ProPublica and WNYC’s Trump, Inc., Stern (German), The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Examiner, The Washington Post, Washingtonian, and Yahoo News.

NBC News published my opinion on the Trumps selling the D.C. hotel’s lease

In late October, the Trump Org announced it was considering selling the lease to the Trump Hotel D.C. I had thoughts. And today NBC News’s opinion section, Think, published them:

“The Trump family’s Washington hotel is one of the worst swamps in D.C. Selling it won’t help.”

Politico, Daily Beast published my articles last week

Last week, I contributed articles to Politico and The Daily Beast about, yes, the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.:

My Trump Hotel D.C. feature for ‘Condé Nast Traveler’ took top honors for investigative reporting in Lowell Thomas competition

My 5,550-word look at the Trump Hotel D.C. for Condé Nast Traveler, “Inside the World’s Most Controversial Hotel,” just took top honors for travel news/investigative reporting in the 2018–2019 Society of American Travel Writers Foundation’s Lowell Thomas awards.

Here’s what the judges, faculty members at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, said about the article:

Zach Everson uses the allure of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., to draw readers into its darker corners where its questionable position in the president’s portfolio is fully explored. The reporter uses the full range of strategies and techniques to show how messy the relationship is between the leader of the free world and a hotel perfectly situated to benefit from his status. What a rare combination of vivid, witty writing and solid investigation this is. Bravo.

Thirty-four other articles were entered in that category. The competition is open to all North American journalists.

The awards, recognized as the most prestigious in travel journalism, were announced Oct. 21 in El Paso, Texas. They are named for Lowell Thomas, a broadcast journalist and author.

Thanks to everyone at Condé Nast Traveler who worked on the article, especially Pilar Guzmán, Laura Redman, Brad Rickman, and Alex Postman for their insightful edits, and Luke Zaleski and Carey Dunne for helpful queries and a thorough fact check. Thanks also to everyone who made time to speak with me or pass along tips for the piece.