Martin Evans
Martin Evans is a military and veteran reporter for Newsday, where he writes about the deaths of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war’s impact on local communities at home. Since joining Newsday in 1996, Evans has investigated many traumatic events, including the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the 1996 crash of T.W.A. Flight 800, for which Newsday won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News coverage. Before coming to Newsday, Evans was the Pacific Rim Reporter for the Orange County Register, where he covered cultural, economic, and social links between the Pacific Rim nations and southern California, including the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, and a Vietnamese refugee camp in the Philippines that was swept by a deadly fire. Evans began his career at the Baltimore Afro-American, covering violent crime in Black families and communities.