Megan Rose (née McCloskey) is a criminal justice journalist. In 2020, Rose won the

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, with fellow journalists T. Christian Miller and Robert Faturechi, for her reporting of the

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accidents.

Education

Rose graduated with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science from the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

Career

Rose is a journalist at

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, where she currently covers criminal justice. She previously covered the military, including investigating spend of the

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Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

, and the failed actions of

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to find and identify missing service members. Prior to working at ProPublica, she worked for the

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, and was national correspondent at Stars and Stripes newspaper. In this role she reported from conflict and disaster zones including

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, Afghanistan and

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. In 2020, in addition to the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting, she was also awarded the

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Journalism Award. She has also received a White House Correspondents’ Association award and the

Deborah Howell Deborah Howell (January 15, 1941 – January 2, 2010) was a long-time newswoman and editor who served for three years as the ombudsman for ''The Washington Post''. Howell is a Board Member In Memoriam at the IWMF (International Women's Media ...

Award for Writing Excellence, and was a finalist for the Livingston Award twice. {{Authority control

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American reporters and correspondents University of Missouri alumni American investigative journalists Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting winners