Pat Maio

Pat Maio is a longtime reporter and editor specializing in business and government reporting. He's been a reporter with the Orange County Register, San Diego Union-Tribune, Dow Jones News, Los Angeles Business Journal and other newspapers in California, Maryland, Ohio, Washington, D.C., West Virginia and Wyoming. In the latter state, Maio covered the uranium mining in the Red Desert, coal in the Powder River Basin, trona, bentonite and critical rare earth minerals. In San Diego, he won writing awards for investigations into farmworker shortages, a recovery in welding jobs following the Great Recession, and high honey prices caused by an unknown disease decimating local honey bee populations. Pat also held business editor positions at the San Bernardino Sun / Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, The Desert Sun in Palm Springs and North County Times in San Diego. He was also the bureau chief of the Dow Jones News Service in Los Angeles where he directed coverage of electricity deregulation in California and the Western United States, and regularly contributed stories to the Wall Street Journal. During the pandemic, Maio wrote about classified military programs at the U.S. Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center in Port Hueneme, Calif.. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Maio is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, where he earned a bachelor's degree. He also holds a master’s degree in journalism from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he wrote a thesis examining the effects of union leadership on the United Mine Workers Journal during the Tony Boyle and Arnold Miller administrations.