About
Kevin Deutsch is an award-winning journalist and founder of the watchdog Jewish news Substack, After October 7. He covers general assignment news and Jewish communities for Talk Media, a chain of local news sites in South Florida. He also writes for the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle and St. Louis Jewish Light. Kevin previously worked as a staff writer at The Miami Times, the Rio Grande SUN, the New York Daily News, The Miami Herald, and The Palm Beach Post, among other outlets. He is the author of The Triangle: A Year on the Ground with New York’s Bloods and Crips and Pill City. Kevin received the 2024 Florida Press Club Awards for Best Minority News Coverage and Best General News Coverage. He is a graduate of Florida International University.
Featured Work
The Triangle: A Year on the Ground with New York’s Bloods and Crips
The book tells the true story of one year in a New York gang war.
Other Works
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Pill City: How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire
2017
Awards and Recognition
- Florida Press Club Awards 2024: First Place General News, First Place Minority Reporting https://kevindeutsch.us/f/thank-you-to-the-wonderful-journalists-of-the-florida-press-club
Press and Media Mentions
- Kirkus Reviews calls Pill City “an important story meticulously reported.”
- Kevin Deutsch of Talk Media Finalist for 2024 Florida Press Club Awards
- Kevin Deutsch Wins 1st Place 2024 Florida Press Club Awards for Minority News and General News Coverage
- Kevin Deutsch Wins 2024 Florida Press Club Awards
- Kevin Deutsch featured in Anash
- Kevin Deutsch appears on Dr. Naya Lekht’s “Don’t Know Much About” podcast
- Kevin Deutsch appears on Dr. Logan Levkoff’s podcast “The Sexy Side of Zionism” on IZZY
- Kevin Deutsch Wins Four 2025 Florida Press Club Awards
- Kevin Deutsch Featured in Voyage KC Magazine’s “Rising Stars”
