Mitchell S. Weiss (born 1957) is an American investigative journalist, and an editor at ''

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''. He won the 2004

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, with

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and Michael D. Sallah.

Life

Weiss is a native of

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. He graduated from

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with an MS in journalism in 1982. He was an

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reporter in

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and

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. From 1998 to 2005 he worked for '' The Blade''. In 2005, he was deputy business editor of The ''

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''. In 2008, he was correspondent to the Charlotte Bureau of the Associated Press. Weiss teaches journalism at the

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. He was a finalist for the

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in 2009.

Works

*With

Michael Sallah Michael D. Sallah is an American investigative reporter and non-fiction author who has twice been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Life Sallah graduated from St. John's Jesuit High School, a college prepa ...

. * With Kevin Maurer. ''No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan''. Berkley, 2012. * With Kevin Maurer. ''Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World’s Most Famous Revolutionary''. Berkley, 2013. * With

. ''The Yankee Comandante: The Untold Story of Courage, Passion, and One American's Fight to Liberate Cuba''. Lyons Press, 2015. * * With

Chris Wallace Christopher Wallace (born October 12, 1947) is an American broadcast journalist. He is known for his tough and wide-ranging interviews, for which he is often compared to his father, ''60 Minutes'' journalist Mike Wallace. Over his 60-year care ...

References

External links

On ''Tiger Force''
at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Weiss, Mitch 1959 births American investigative journalists Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners Northwestern University alumni Associated Press reporters University of South Carolina Upstate faculty Living people Journalists from New York City