Abraham Hyatt

Abraham Hyatt (born 1976, San Luis Obispo, California) was the managing editor of Oregon Business, a magazine based in Portland, Oregon. In 2008 he received awards from the AABP for his body of work during the previous year and for his coverage of Native American tribal economies. He also received awards in 2008 from the Oregon chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for his work on tribal economies, and for his reportage on the conflict between proponents of wave energy and the Pacific Northwest fishing industry.
Before joining Oregon Business, Hyatt worked as a reporter at ' where he covered financial, legal, and political issues in regional communities on the Central Coast of California. He investigated government agencies that flouted public record laws and non-profit agencies that hid operating costs from donors. Much of his work focused on the lead up to the Los Osos Community Services District bankruptcy, one of the most expensive municipal bankruptcies in the nation.
Hyatt has also worked as a reporter at the California alternative-weekly, San Luis Obispo New Times. His investigative work included stories on a California state senator who accepted $31,000 in gifts from lobby groups, a disability litigant who filed millions of dollars in specious lawsuits, and the high number of weapon seized at a regional airport.
From 2002 to 2004, he worked as the arts and entertainment editor of the Santa Maria Sun in Santa Maria, California.

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