Paula Lavigne

Paula Lavigne is an ESPN investigative reporter working primarily for the Outside the Lines brand on television and online. She is experienced in covering several topics and is a specialist in data journalism and statistics and also trains colleagues on databases and investigative reporting techniques. She worked previously as a reporter at The Dallas Morning News, The Des Moines Register, and The News-Tribune in Tacoma, Washington. She has degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Creighton University.

Her and her colleagues’ work on the Baylor sexual assault cases for ESPN has already won awards, including a 2017 Gracie Award for investigative television feature. In 2015, Lavigne was the recipient of a first prize for broadcast investigative reporting from the Education Writers Association for a story about the University of Missouri’s handling of a sexual assault case. She was a winner of the 2014 Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award for her work on a series of stories that uncovered a high-stakes gambling ring on youth football in South Florida that led to several arrests. And she was among the team of reporters and producers nominated for a Sports Emmy Award in 2009 for a story on Penn State University players getting in trouble with the law. (@pinepaula)