Joe Mahr is an American investigative journalist, who won the 2004

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Life

He was born in

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and attended

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and the

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, where he obtained his undergraduate degree in journalism. In 2004, Mahr was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting along with

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and Michael D. Sallah, for a series on the atrocities committed by

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, a U.S. Army platoon during the Vietnam War. The trio also received The Medal by

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; a first-place

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for investigative reporting; a first-place Nieman Award presented by the

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, and a first-place award for investigative reporting by Associated Press Society of Ohio. His

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article about police corruption in

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, co-authored by Joseph Ryan and Matthew Walberg, was a finalist for the

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. His investigative work for the ''

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'' also included an investigation into allegations that the police in Toledo refused to arrest or investigate abusive priests 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 ''

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''. He currently writes for the ''

'' 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.

References

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