Gary Martin (1958 â November 10, 2022) was an American politics reporter. He was a Washington bureau chief who covered the United States Congress for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Martin was a native of Boulder, Colorado. He attended Colorado State University. He had a decades-long career reporting on government and working as a Washington correspondent, starting at the San Antonio Express-News.
Martin won a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for leading the reporting team at the Express-News that broke the story about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death.
Martin was found dead in a hotel room in Las Vegas after reporting on the 2022 United States elections two months after the murder of his colleague Jeff German.