Marcus Oyelaran began his career as a metro reporter at a mid-sized daily newspaper, covering city government, local business, and the occasional runaway municipal budget hearing. After the paper's newsroom shrank twice in five years, he moved into explanatory journalism full time, where he found his real footing: taking complicated tech, money, and policy stories and rebuilding them from the ground up so a reader with no background in the subject can follow every step. At The Spectrum Post, he specializes in stories that sit at the intersection of technology and everyday economics — how a new interest-rate decision actually changes a mortgage payment, or what a platform's algorithm change means for the people who rely on it. He still calls three sources for every explainer, even the ones that feel obvious.
- Former metro reporter, regional daily newspaper (9 years)
- Certificate in Data Journalism, City University Journalism School
- Member, National Association of Science Writers
14+ years of experience
