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American investigative journalist
Joe Mahr is an American investigative journalist, who won the 2004
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting .
Life
He was born in
Genoa, Ohio and attended
Genoa Area High School and the
Honors Tutorial College at
Ohio University , where he obtained his undergraduate degree in journalism.
In 2004, Mahr was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting along with
Mitch Weiss and
Michael D. Sallah , for a series on the atrocities committed by
Tiger Force , a U.S. Army platoon during the Vietnam War.
[1] The trio also received The Medal by
Investigative Reporters & Editors ; a first-place
Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting; a first-place
Nieman Award presented by the
Nieman Foundation for Journalism at
Harvard University , and a first-place award for investigative reporting by
Associated Press Society of Ohio .
His
Chicago Tribune article about police corruption in
Harvey, Illinois , co-authored by Joseph Ryan and Matthew Walberg, was a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize .
[2]
His investigative work for the
Toledo Blade also included an investigation into allegations that the police in Toledo refused to arrest or investigate abusive priests
[3]
In addition to his Pulitzer Prize–winning work, Mahr has also written a series of stories looking at abuse and neglect in the mental health system for the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch .
He currently writes for the
Chicago Tribune
[4] where he was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for his coverage of government corruption in the Chicago suburb of
Harvey, IL .
[5]
References
Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time from 1953–1963 and the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting from 1964–1984
1953–1975 1976–2000
Chicago Tribune (1976)
Acel Moore &
Wendell Rawls Jr. (1977)
Anthony R. Dolan (1978)
Gilbert M. Gaul &
Elliot G. Jaspin (1979)
Stephen Kurkjian ,
Alexander B. Hawes Jr. ,
Nils Bruzelius ,
Joan Vennochi &
Robert M. Porterfield (1980)
Clark Hallas &
Robert B. Lowe (1981)
Paul Henderson (1982)
Loretta Tofani (1983)
Kenneth Cooper ,
Joan Fitz Gerald ,
Jonathan Kaufman ,
Norman Lockman ,
Gary McMillan ,
Kirk Scharfenberg &
David Wessel (1984)
Lucy Morgan ,
Jack Reed &
William K. Marimow (1985)
Jeffrey A. Marx &
Michael M. York (1986)
Daniel R. Biddle ,
H.G. Bissinger ,
Fredric N. Tulsky &
John Woestendiek (1987)
Dean Baquet ,
William C. Gaines &
Ann Marie Lipinski (19)
Bill Dedman (1989)
Lou Kilzer (1990)
Joseph T. Hallinan &
Susan M. Headden (1991)
Lorraine Adams &
Dan Malone (1992)
Jeff Brazil &
Steve Berry (1993)
Providence Journal-Bulletin (1994)
Stephanie Saul &
Brian Donovan (1995)
The Orange County Register (1996)
Eric Nalder ,
Deborah Nelson &
Alex Tizon (1997)
Gary Cohn &
Will Englund (1998)
Miami Herald (1999)
Sang-Hun Choe ,
Charles J. Hanley &
Martha Mendoza (2000)
2001–2025
David Willman (2001)
Sari Horwitz ,
Scott Higham &
Sarah Cohen (2002)
Clifford J. Levy (2003)
Michael D. Sallah ,
Joe Mahr &
Mitch Weiss (2004)
Nigel Jaquiss (2005)
Susan Schmidt ,
James V. Grimaldi &
R. Jeffrey Smith (2006)
Brett Blackledge (2007)
Walt Bogdanich ,
Jake Hooker &
Chicago Tribune (2008)
David Barstow (2009)
Barbara Laker ,
Wendy Ruderman &
Sheri Fink (2010)
Paige St. John (2011)
Matt Apuzzo ,
Adam Goldman ,
Eileen Sullivan ,
Chris Hawley ,
Michael J. Berens &
Ken Armstrong (2012)
David Barstow &
Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab (2013)
Chris Hamby (2014)
Eric Lipton &
The Wall Street Journal (2015)
Leonora LaPeter Anton ,
Anthony Cormier ,
Michael Braga &
Esther Htusan (2016)
Eric Eyre (2017)
The Washington Post (2018)
Matt Hamilton ,
Harriet Ryan &
Paul Pringle (2019)
Brian Rosenthal (2020)
Matt Rocheleau ,
Vernal Coleman ,
Laura Crimaldi ,
Evan Allen &
Brendan McCarthy (2021)
Corey G. Johnson ,
Rebecca Woolington &
Eli Murray (2022)
Staff of
The Wall Street Journal (2023)