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Scott Higham

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Scott Higham
EducationStony Brook University, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
OccupationInvestigative Reporter
EmployerThe Washington Post
AwardsTwo Pulitzer Prizes

Scott Higham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning member of The Washington Post's investigations unit. He graduated from Stony Brook University, with a B.A. in history and has a M.S. from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Higham also earned an A.S. in criminal justice at Suffolk County Community College.[1]

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Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award administered by Columbia University for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher. Prizes are awarded annually in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal.

The Washington Post

The Washington Post

The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area.

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University, officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's two flagship institutions. Its campus consists of 213 buildings on over 1,454 acres of land in Suffolk County and it is the largest public university in the state of New York.

Suffolk County Community College

Suffolk County Community College

Suffolk County Community College (SCCC) is a public community college in Selden, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system and is funded in part by Suffolk County, New York. Suffolk County Community College was founded in 1959 and has three campuses: Selden, Brentwood and Riverhead. It also has two satellite centers in Sayville and downtown Riverhead.

Career

Higham worked at his school magazine, The Stony Brook Press, eventually becoming the Executive Editor.[2] After graduation, in the early 1980s, he took his first job at the Allentown Morning Call. Higham worked for the Miami Herald and later at The Baltimore Sun.[1] In an interview at his alma mater, he recalled being the first reporter at the scene of the Oklahoma City bombing attack in 1995, saying, he "was able to be a witness to history.” In 2000, he began working as an investigative reporter with The Washington Post.[2]

in 2004, Higham conducted numerous investigations for The Washington Post, including an examination of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison, and waste and fraud in Homeland Security contracting.[3][4][5] The Abu Ghraib investigation was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting,[6] and the series on contracting won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for largest newspapers.[7] He has also conducted investigations into spending at Guantanamo Bay detention camp and conflicts of interests on Capitol Hill.[8]

Higham, won numerous awards in 2018, with the staff of The Washington Post and 60 Minutes for a series of investigations into the causes of the opioid epidemic.[9]

Higham and Sari Horwitz co-authored the book Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery.[10] The non-fiction book chronicles the 2001 disappearance of Washington, DC intern Chandra Levy, whose remains were found one year later in an isolated area of the city's 2,800-acre (11 km2) Rock Creek Park. The book was a 2011 finalist for an Edgar Award, sponsored by Mystery Writers of America.[11]

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Miami Herald

Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is an American daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Sweetwater, Florida, a city in western Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area, several miles west of Downtown Miami. Founded in 1903, it is the fifth largest newspaper in Florida, serving Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe Counties. It once circulated throughout all of Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. The Miami Herald has been awarded 22 Pulitzer Prizes since its 1903 founding.

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Oklahoma City bombing

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Abu Ghraib prison

Abu Ghraib prison

Abu Ghraib prison was a prison complex in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, located 32 kilometers (20 mi) west of Baghdad. Abu Ghraib prison was opened in the 1950s and served as a maximum-security prison with torture, weekly executions, and poor living conditions. From the 1970s, the prison was used by Saddam Hussein and later the United States to hold political prisoners. It developed a reputation for torture and extrajudicial killing, and was closed in 2014.

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

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Guantanamo Bay detention camp

Guantanamo Bay detention camp

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Capitol Hill

Capitol Hill

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Opioid epidemic

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Sari Horwitz

Sari Horwitz

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Rock Creek Park

Rock Creek Park

Rock Creek Park is a large urban park that bisects the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. The park was created by an Act of Congress in 1890 and today is administered by the National Park Service. In addition to the park proper, the Rock Creek administrative unit of the National Park Service administers various other federally owned properties in the District of Columbia located to the north and west of the National Mall, including Meridian Hill Park on 16th Street, N.W., the Old Stone House in Georgetown, and certain of the Fort Circle Parks, a series of batteries and forts encircling the District of Columbia for its defense during the U.S. Civil War.

Mystery Writers of America

Mystery Writers of America

Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is an organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City.

Awards and recognition

  • 1993 Finalist Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting, with the staff of Miami Herald[12]
  • 1994 Finalist Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, with the staff of The Miami Herald[13]
  • 2001 Winner Investigative Reporters and Editors Award with the staff of The Washington Post, for exploring the deaths of children in D.C.[14]
  • 2002 Winner Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, with the staff of The Washington Post, for a series that exposed the District of Columbia's role in the neglect and death of 229 children placed in protective care between 1993 and 2000, which prompted an overhaul of the city's child welfare system[15]
  • 2002 Winner Heywood Broun Award, with the staff of The Washington Post, for "The District's Lost Children"[16]
  • 2002 Winner Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (Grand Prize and Domestic Print), with the staff of The Washington Post, for "The District's Lost Children"[17]
  • 2002 Associated Press Managing Editors Award[1]
  • 2005 Finalist Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, with the staff of The Washington Post[6]
  • 2005 Winner Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, with the staff of The Washington Post[7]
  • 2012 Winner The Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, with the staff of The Washington Post, for "Capitol Assets"[18]
  • 2012 Winner Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, with the staff of The Washington Post[19]
  • 2016 Winner Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, with the staff of The Washington Post, for its revelatory initiative in creating and using a national database to illustrate how often and why the police shoot to kill and who the victims are most likely to be[20]
  • 2016 Winner The Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, with the staff of The Washington Post, for their investigative reporting on the DEA's lax regulation on opioid distribution[21]
  • 2017 Winner The Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, with the staff of The Washington Post and CBS News 60 Minutes, for "The Whistleblower" a joint investigation into how the Drug Enforcement Administration was hobbled in its attempts to hold Big Pharma accountable in the opioid epidemic[22]
  • 2017 Winner George Polk Award, with the staff of The Washington Post, for uncovering connections between the Trump campaign officials and Russians[23]
  • 2018 Winner Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting, with CBS News 60 Minutes, for "Too Big to Prosecute"[24]
  • 2018 Winner News and Documentary Emmy Award, with the staff of The Washington Post and CBS News 60 Minutes, for "The Whistleblower”, a joint investigation into how the drug industry triumphed over the DEA in its effort to combat the nation's opioid crisis, the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history[25]
  • 2018 Winner the Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism, with the staff of The Washington Post and CBS News 60 Minutes, for "The Whistleblower" and "Too Big to Prosecute"[26]
  • 2018 Winner the Peabody Award, with the staff of The Washington Post and CBS News 60 Minutes, for "The Whistleblower" the joint investigation into how the Drug Enforcement Administration was hobbled in its attempts to hold Big Pharma accountable in the opioid epidemic[27]

Note: "The Whistleblower" and "Too Big to Prosecute" were also finalists for the Gerald Loeb Award and the Scripps Howard Journal Award.[1]

Source: "Scott Higham", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, October 1st), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Higham.

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