David E. Umhoefer (born 1961) is a faculty member at Marquette University where he directs the O'Brien Fellowship for Public Service Journalism. Prior, he was a reporter for the ''
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel''. He won the 2008
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
The Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting is awarded to an example of "local reporting that illuminates significant issues or concerns." This Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1948. Like most Pulitzers the winner receives a $15,000 award.
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for a six-month investigation of
Milwaukee County's pension system, citing "his stories on the skirting of tax laws to pad pensions of county employees, prompting change and possible prosecution of key figures."
["The 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Local Reporting"]
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-09. With short biography and reprints of six works (''Journal Sentinel'' articles published July 29, 2007). The investigation exposed a corrupt, illegal scheme in which more than 350
Milwaukee County employees had increased their pensions by a collective total of over $50 million. For example, "One employee qualified for a 25% pension increase because she worked a half-day at a county park in 1978."
Umhoefer is from
La Crosse, Wisconsin and he graduated from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication in 1983. He previously contributed to
PolitiFact, rating the accuracy of statements by candidates for public office, elected officials, and political parties.
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1961 births
Living people
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting winners
Journalists from Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication alumni
Writers from La Crosse, Wisconsin
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
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