Mary Pilon

Mary Pilon (born 16 May 1986 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American journalist and filmmaker who primarily covers sports and business. A regular contributor to the New Yorker and Bloomberg Businessweek, her books are The Monopolists (2015), The Kevin Show (2018), Losers: Dispatches From the Other Side of the Scoreboard (2020, with Louisa Thomas), and The Longest Race, co-authored with Olympian Kara Goucher. She has also worked as a staff reporter covering sports for The New York Times and business at The Wall Street Journal and has also written and produced for Vice, Esquire, NBC News, among other outlets.

At the Times, Pilon authored a story that was the first-ever graphic novel for the paper and its first audiobook, "Tomato Can Blues," a true-crime story of Charles Rowan; it was narrated by actor Bobby Cannavale.

She is an adjunct professor at NYU's Carter Institute of Journalism, where she teaches a graduate-level investigative reporting class.