Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist
milwaukee, wisconsin, united states
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Claim your profilePulitzer Prize-Winning journalist with more than 30 years' experience, including 10 years as a masthead-level editor and manager, and 75 national and state awards. Editorial-page editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; columnist, editorial writer, reporter, and assistant city editor at the Detroit Free Press; deputy editor at the Toledo Blade; reporter at USA Today; and investigative reporter at the Green Bay Pess-Gazette. Awards include the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, three National Headliner Awards, two Scripps Howard Foundation Awards, four National SPJ Awards, two News Leaders Association Awards, the Batten Medal, the Carmage Walls Prize for Commentary, and a Eugene C. Pulliam Editorial Fellowship. Leading authority on prison, criminal justice, drug, addiction, and urban issues. Reported from Tanzania, Brazil, Israel, West Bank, and Cuba. Spent six weeks in Ukraine in the spring of 2022, writing commentary on the refugee crisis. Experienced diversity trainer. Former jazz and rock drummer.





