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

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, with fellow journalists

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and

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, for her reporting of the

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accidents.

Education

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

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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 U.S. government in

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, 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 Haiti. 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

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