Almost every weekday for six years, Christie Smythe took the F train from Park Slope downtown to her desk at Brooklyn’s federal court, in a pressroom hidden on the far side of a snack bar. Smythe, who covered white-collar crime for Bloomberg News, wore mostly black and gray, and usually skipped makeup. She and her husband, who worked in finance, spent their free time cooking, walking Smythe’s rescue dog, and going on literary pub crawls. “We had the perfect little Brooklyn life,” Smythe says. Then she chucked it all. Over the course of nine months, beginning in July 2018, Smythe quit her...…Almost every weekday for six years, Christie Smythe took the F train from Park Slope downtown to her desk at Brooklyn’s federal court, in a pressroom hidden on the far side of a snack bar. Smythe, who covered white-collar crime for Bloomberg News, wore mostly black and gray, and usually skipped makeup. She and her husband, who worked in finance, spent their free time cooking, walking Smythe’s rescue dog, and going on literary pub crawls. “We had the perfect little Brooklyn life,” Smythe says. Then she chucked it all. Over the course of nine months, beginning in July 2018, Smythe quit her...WW…

Almost every weekday for six years, Christie Smythe took the F train from Park Slope downtown to her desk at Brooklyn’s federal court, in a pressroom hidden on the far side of a snack bar. Smythe, who covered white-collar crime for Bloomberg News, wore mostly black and gray, and usually skipped makeup. She and her husband, who worked in finance, spent their free time cooking, walking Smythe’s rescue dog, and going on literary pub crawls. “We had the perfect little Brooklyn life,” Smythe says. Then she chucked it all. Over the course of nine months, beginning in July 2018, Smythe quit her...…Almost every weekday for six years, Christie Smythe took the F train from Park Slope downtown to her desk at Brooklyn’s federal court, in a pressroom hidden on the far side of a snack bar. Smythe, who covered white-collar crime for Bloomberg News, wore mostly black and gray, and usually skipped makeup. She and her husband, who worked in finance, spent their free time cooking, walking Smythe’s rescue dog, and going on literary pub crawls. “We had the perfect little Brooklyn life,” Smythe says. Then she chucked it all. Over the course of nine months, beginning in July 2018, Smythe quit her...WW…

On Sunday night, Christie Smythe transformed from journalist to subject, when ELLE's about Smythe’s romance with “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli went live. Shkreli, a pharmaceutical executive who became infamous when he raised the price of a lifesaving drug by 5,000 percent, had subsequently been arrested on federal fraud charges—and Smythe broke the story of that arrest. I knew Smythe from our days in the pressroom at the Brooklyn federal court, where she wrote for Bloomberg and I wrote for the Times, and I covered Shkreli’s case alongside her. By then, Smythe was writing a book on Shkreli,...…On Sunday night, Christie Smythe transformed from journalist to subject, when ELLE's about Smythe’s romance with “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli went live. Shkreli, a pharmaceutical executive who became infamous when he raised the price of a lifesaving drug by 5,000 percent, had subsequently been arrested on federal fraud charges—and Smythe broke the story of that arrest. I knew Smythe from our days in the pressroom at the Brooklyn federal court, where she wrote for Bloomberg and I wrote for the Times, and I covered Shkreli’s case alongside her. By then, Smythe was writing a book on Shkreli,...WW…

A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?The power of child-abuse pediatric specialists and parents' unequal journey toward justiceByByy baby is not breathing,” Josue Santiago told the Racine, Wisconsin, 911 operator. “Oh my God, man, please send somebody. Please. Elihu. Elihu,” he said, repeating his son’s name.This article was published in partnership with . contributed reporting.Photos at top: Left, Glendalyz Galarza and Josue Santiago in Chicago; right, Daniel Namie and Molly Hayes with their children in suburban...…A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?The power of child-abuse pediatric specialists and parents' unequal journey toward justiceByByy baby is not breathing,” Josue Santiago told the Racine, Wisconsin, 911 operator. “Oh my God, man, please send somebody. Please. Elihu. Elihu,” he said, repeating his son’s name.This article was published in partnership with . contributed reporting.Photos at top: Left, Glendalyz Galarza and Josue Santiago in Chicago; right, Daniel Namie and Molly Hayes with their children in suburban...WW…