Christopher S. Stewart is an American author and investigative reporter for ''

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'', which he joined in 2011. In 2015, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative reporting with several colleagues for a series of articles exposing abuses in the Medicare system. He was formerly a contributing editor at

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, where, among other things, he wrote about the Unification Church's gun business, Iran sanction busting, and corruption in Iraq. His story about Iraq's top cop was at the center of a Congressional inquiry into fraud and waste. He was later the deputy editor at ''

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''. Stewart has written for various magazines, including ''

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'', '' GQ'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''Wired'', among others. He is the author of ''Hunting the Tiger,'' a definitive portrait of one of the Balkans most dangerous men during the region's wars in the 1990s. His second book, ''Jungleland,'' is about a lost city in Central America and an American spy who claimed that he'd found it. He lives in New York. Stewart is the co-author of the book ''Drone Warrior'' about the life of Brett Velicovich, which received

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approval in 2016. The book has been optioned by Paramount Pictures for a biographical film to be produced by

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Awards

* 2015

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for "Medicare Unmasked" as part of ''The Wall Street Journal'' team * 2015

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for Investigative business journalism for "Medicare Unmasked" * 2014

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FOI Award for "Medicare Unmasked" * 2023 Gerald Loeb Award for Video for "How Russia Stole Ukraine's Grain"

References

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