Steve Fainaru ( ro, Făinaru; born 1962) is an American investigative journalist and senior writer for

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and ''

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''. He was previously a correspondent for the ''

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'', where his coverage of the

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earned him the

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in 2008. He left the ''Post'' in 2010 and became managing editor of

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, a San Francisco Bay Area news organization. He co-wrote ''

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'' with his brother

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, a book about

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in the National Football League, which earned Fainaru and his brother the 2014

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, and grew up in

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. He attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, and graduated from the

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in 1984. He returned to the Bay Area and worked for the ''

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'', then moved to the East coast, working for the ''

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'' (Connecticut) from 1986 to 1989, then ''

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'', where he was named the ''Globe'' New York bureau chief. He earned a master's degree in international affairs at

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in 1992. From 1995 to 1998 he was the ''Globe'' Latin American bureau chief, based in Mexico City.

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Steve Făinaru, distins cu premiul Pulitzer :„Vizita în România a fost un vis!”
1962 births Living people Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners People from Mountain View, California University of Missouri alumni The Boston Globe people The Washington Post people ESPN people American investigative journalists American war correspondents School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni The Mercury News people Sportswriters from California American people of Romanian descent Redwood High School (Larkspur, California) alumni {{US-journalist-1960s-stub