Jacqueline Garton Crosby (May 13, 1961) is an American journalist. She won the

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with

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for investigating athletics and academics at the

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Biography

Crosby was born on May 13, 1961, to Marianne (Garton) and James Ellis Crosby. She graduated from the

in 1983 with a

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. While at the University, she worked as sports writer for '' The Red & Black'', the student newspaper, and wrote a story about a football player who had been 'illegally recruited'. She worked at the ''

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'' from 1980 to 1984 as a staff writer, and became sports writer in July 1983. She left the ''Macon Telegraph'' in May 1984, and began working at the ''

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'' as a sports copy-editor. She left that paper in January 1985. That same year, the

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named one of her stories 'Best Series of the Year'. Crosby also won the

with

for an eighteen story investigation into athletics and academics at the

and

. The pair investigated and found that athletes received preferential treatment. At the age of 23, Crosby was the youngest person to ever receive a Pulitzer Prize, and since

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's 1996 win at age 22, she became the second youngest. Crosby shortly left the ''Macon Telegraph'', returning to graduate school to work on her

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at the

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.The following year, Crosby became a staff writer. For two years, from 1987 to 1989, she worked at Ivanhoe Communications as 'Special Projects Director' and held the same position at

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, from 1989 to 1994. That year, Crosby became assistant news editor at the ''

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''. At the ''Star-Tribune'', Jackie was the business reporter in 2016, writing about "the impact that aging baby boomers and rising millennials are having on the economy, health care system and workplace".

References

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