Josh Voorhees is an American political and investigative journalist. He is a former senior writer for ''

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,'' and the former editor of its

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, The Slatest. He earned a BA from

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and an MPH from

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. He currently lives in

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Career

Voorhees worked as a teacher in

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before becoming a journalist. One of his first beats was at ''

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'', where he covered the

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. He later worked at

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, where he wrote the Morning Energy newsletter, before joining ''

'' to launch the magazine's news and aggregation vertical. In 2013, he was named a fellow of the Kiplinger Program by

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, and in 2021, he was named a fellow at the

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. In 2009, '' The Hill'' named him one of the 50 most beautiful people of the year.

References

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