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Here is a bio, for professional reasons.
Pablo Torre is the host and executive editor of Meadowlark Media’s Pablo Torre Finds Out, which won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Sports Reporting in 2024.
In 2025, PTFO was unanimously honored as a finalist for the Peabody Award.
New York Magazine named the show one of The Best Podcasts of 2025.
PTFO was also named Best Sports Documentary Podcast at the 2025 Sports Podcast Awards, which further recognized The Sporting Class as the Best Sports Business Podcast. PTFO was additionally honored by both the Webby Awards and Podcast Academy. In 2024, it won two Signal Awards — including for Best Sports Talk Show — and its storytelling won a New York Festivals Radio Award.
PTFO’s reporting has been featured by John Oliver on HBO’s Last Week Tonight.
The show launched in September 2023.
It has been described as the future of magazine-style reporting.
Since 2012, Torre has worked as a TV host and commentator for ESPN, regularly appearing on the network’s highest-rated daytime programs (Pardon The Interruption, Around The Horn). He won his first Edward R. Murrow Award in 2022.
In 2024, MSNBC and NBC News hired Torre as a contributor and co-host of their TV news programming (Morning Joe, The 11th Hour, Deadline: White House).
He owns the record for biggest comeback in Celebrity Family Feud history (above) and was inducted into The Process Hall of Fame (which is definitely a real thing).
Previously, Torre was a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine and staff writer at Sports Illustrated, specializing in enterprise journalism. His story “How and Why Athletes Go Broke” became the basis for the 30 for 30 documentary Broke.
His features have been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists; the Society of American Business Editors and Writers; the Association of Health Care Journalists; the U.S. Basketball Writers Association; the Boxing Writers Association of America; and The Best American Sports Writing.
(Here’s one example of a thing he wrote.)
Torre graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard, where his study of child homicide in America won the Fulton Prize for best thesis in the field of sociology.
He is a first-generation American who was born and raised and lives in New York City with his family.
“The unifying premise of the show remains unchanged: uncover something surprising. Mix the silly — even the salacious — with the smart” — The New York Times/Athletic
“A joyful, probing curiosity honed both in the longform mines (he was once, long ago, a magazine writer) and in TV’s hot-take economy” — GQ
“A voluminous thinker, but he makes for an excellent gasbag” — New York Magazine
“Pablo, I hope you’re proud of these guys” — Barack Obama
“A popular podcaster” — Vanity Fair
“Miserable” — Larsa Pippen and Marcus Jordan
Watch and listen to Pablo Torre Finds Out on:
YouTube (!)
Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify
TikTok!?!
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