Pablo Torre is a journalist, television personality, and podcast host best known today as the host and executive editor of Meadowlark Media’s Pablo Torre Finds Out (PTFO), 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 and named one of New York Magazine’s Best Podcasts of the year. The show also won Best Sports Documentary Podcast at the 2025 Sports Podcast Awards, where The Sporting Class—another project Torre helped create—won Best Sports Business Podcast. PTFO has been recognized by the Webby Awards, the Podcast Academy, and the Signal Awards (including Best Sports Talk Show), and its reporting was featured on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Torre was born on July 27, 1985, in New York City, where he still lives with his family. A first-generation American and the son of Taiwanese immigrants, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 2007 and a Master of Science from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2008.
He began his career as a staff writer for Sports Illustrated, covering a wide range of topics including basketball, football, and baseball. His article “How and Why Athletes Go Broke” became the basis for the acclaimed ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Broke. In 2012, Torre joined ESPN as a senior writer and evolved into one of the network’s most visible voices—appearing regularly on Pardon The Interruption, Around the Horn, and previously on Highly Questionable. He also served as a co-host on ESPN Radio’s The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz and hosted the podcast ESPN Daily. In 2022, he won his first Edward R. Murrow Award.
In 2024, Torre expanded his journalism portfolio by joining MSNBC and NBC News as a contributor and co-host for programming including Morning Joe, The 11th Hour, and Deadline: White House.
Throughout his career, Torre has been honored by organizations such as 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.
He is also known for his advocacy around mental health and Asian American identity. Torre has spoken openly about his experiences with anxiety, depression, and the pressures of being a first-generation Asian American, including in a 2018 essay for ESPN and a 2019 interview with The Athletic. He has used both his platform and his reporting to push for greater awareness and support around mental health in and beyond sports.
Torre holds the record for the biggest comeback in Celebrity Family Feud history and was inducted into The Process Hall of Fame (which is, according to him, “definitely a real thing”).
