Jacob H. Fries (born 1978) is an American

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The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

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St. Petersburg Times The ''Tampa Bay Times'', previously named the ''St. Petersburg Times'' until 2011, is an American newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. It has won fourteen Pulitzer Prizes since 1964, and in 2009, won two in a single ...

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The Seattle Times ''The Seattle Times'' is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded in 1891 and has been owned by the Blethen family since 1896. ''The Seattle Times'' has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Washington (s ...

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The Pacific Northwest Inlander ''Inlander'', officially ''The Pacific Northwest Inlander'', is a free weekly newspaper published in Spokane, Washington, and circulated throughout the Inland Northwest, covering local news and culture. It is published in print and online every T ...

'', among other publications. His articles are usually on the topics of law and criminality. In 2006, he spent 48 hours locked up with inmates at an overcrowded county jail in Pinellas County, Florida, producing a special report for the ''St. Petersburg Times'', which won a Green Eyeshade Award. An article he wrote on

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, who set a world record trekking across Antarctica, was excerpted i
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He was named editor of the ''Pacific Northwest Inlander'' in 2012. He was newly announced as editor of InvestigateWest on Sept. 23, 2021.

External links

Articles in The New York Times by Fries

References

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