Eric Eyre is a longtime West Virginia-based journalist. In 2017, Eyre’s investigation into massive shipments of opioids to West Virginia’s southern coalfields was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. He is the author of Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic (published by Scribner), which was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Ten Book of the Year, and won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best True Crime book.
For 22 years, Eyre was a reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail, where he covered education, health, business and state government corruption. Eyre's work won additional national awards, including the Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) Medal, Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize in Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, National Headliners Award, Society of American Business Editors and Writers award, Gerald Loeb Award for business writing, and an Association of Health Care Journalists award. His investigative stories have mostly spotlighted issues in rural West Virginia communities. He lives in Charleston with his wife, Lori, and two cats, BlackieBella and Abby.
