Richard Martin is The Baltimore Banner’s senior deputy managing editor for projects, investigations and enterprise.
He returned to Baltimore after spending three years as the criminal justice editor at the Los Angeles Times, where he oversaw coverage of some of the paper’s biggest stories, including the college admissions scandal and the 2019 deadly boat fire off the Santa Barbara coast, which was recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting.
Previously, he was the senior criminal justice editor at The Baltimore Sun. He has also worked as an editor and reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, Seattle Times and Gannett newspapers in Florida, California and Guam.
