Mitch Weiss
American investigative journalist and editor
Mitchell S. Weiss (born 1957) is an American investigative journalist, and an editor at The Charlotte Observer. He won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, with Joe Mahr and Michael D. Sallah.[1]
Life
Weiss is a native of New York City. He graduated from Northwestern University with an MS in journalism in 1982. He was an Associated Press reporter in Toledo and Columbus, Ohio. From 1998 to 2005 he worked for The Blade. In 2005, he was deputy business editor of The Charlotte Observer. In 2008, he was correspondent to the Charlotte Bureau of the Associated Press.
Weiss teaches journalism at the University of South Carolina Upstate.[2][3] He was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award in 2009.[4]
Works
- With Michael Sallah. Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War. Hodder & Stoughton. 2006. ISBN 978-0-340-75249-4.
- With Kevin Maurer. No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan. Berkley, 2012. ISBN 0425245268
- With Kevin Maurer. Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World’s Most Famous Revolutionary. Berkley, 2013. ISBN 0425257460
- With Michael Sallah. The Yankee Comandante: The Untold Story of Courage, Passion, and One American's Fight to Liberate Cuba. Lyons Press, 2015. ISBN 0762792876
- The Heart of Hell: The Untold Story of Courage and Sacrifice in the Shadow of Iwo Jima. Berkley. 2016. ISBN 978-0425279175.
- With Chris Wallace. Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World. Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. 2020. ISBN 978-1982143343.
References
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes | Citation". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
- ^ "USC Upstate News". Uscupstate.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
- ^ http://webapp.uscupstate.edu/search/namesrch.aspx?fname=*&lname=weiss*&facstaff=Both[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Gerald Loeb Awards - Mitch Weiss". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Archived from the original on April 3, 2012. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
External links
- On Tiger Force at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
- http://fora.tv/2006/06/01/Michael_Sallah_and_Mitch_Weiss
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Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time from 1953–1963 and the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting from 1964–1984
- Edward J. Mowery (1953)
- Alvin McCoy (1954)
- Roland Kenneth Towery (1955)
- Arthur Daley (1956)
- Wallace Turner (1957)
- George Beveridge (1958)
- John Harold Brislin (1959)
- Miriam Ottenberg (1960)
- Edgar May (1961)
- George Bliss (1962)
- Oscar Griffin Jr. (1963)
- James V. Magee, Albert V. Gaudiosi & Frederick Meyer (1964)
- Gene Goltz (1965)
- John Anthony Frasca (1966)
- Gene Miller (1967)
- J. Anthony Lukas (1968)
- Al Delugach & Denny Walsh (1969)
- Harold E. Martin (1970)
- William Jones (1971)
- Timothy Leland, Gerard M. O'Neill, Stephen Kurkjian & Ann Desantis (1972)
- The Sun Newspapers of Omaha (1973)
- William Sherman (1974)
- The Indianapolis Star (1975)
- Chicago Tribune (1976)
- Acel Moore & Wendell Rawls Jr. (1977)
- Anthony R. Dolan (1978)
- Gilbert M. Gaul & Elliot G. Jaspin (1979)
- Stephen Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi & Robert M. Porterfield (1980)
- Clark Hallas & Robert B. Lowe (1981)
- Paul Henderson (1982)
- Loretta Tofani (1983)
- Kenneth Cooper, Joan Fitz Gerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary McMillan, Kirk Scharfenberg & David Wessel (1984)
- Lucy Morgan, Jack Reed & William K. Marimow (1985)
- Jeffrey A. Marx & Michael M. York (1986)
- Daniel R. Biddle, H.G. Bissinger, Fredric N. Tulsky & John Woestendiek (1987)
- Dean Baquet, William C. Gaines & Ann Marie Lipinski (19)
- Bill Dedman (1989)
- Lou Kilzer (1990)
- Joseph T. Hallinan & Susan M. Headden (1991)
- Lorraine Adams & Dan Malone (1992)
- Jeff Brazil & Steve Berry (1993)
- Providence Journal-Bulletin (1994)
- Stephanie Saul & Brian Donovan (1995)
- The Orange County Register (1996)
- Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson & Alex Tizon (1997)
- Gary Cohn & Will Englund (1998)
- Miami Herald (1999)
- Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley & Martha Mendoza (2000)
- David Willman (2001)
- Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham & Sarah Cohen (2002)
- Clifford J. Levy (2003)
- Michael D. Sallah, Joe Mahr & Mitch Weiss (2004)
- Nigel Jaquiss (2005)
- Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi & R. Jeffrey Smith (2006)
- Brett Blackledge (2007)
- Walt Bogdanich, Jake Hooker & Chicago Tribune (2008)
- David Barstow (2009)
- Barbara Laker, Wendy Ruderman & Sheri Fink (2010)
- Paige St. John (2011)
- Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan, Chris Hawley, Michael J. Berens & Ken Armstrong (2012)
- David Barstow & Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab (2013)
- Chris Hamby (2014)
- Eric Lipton & The Wall Street Journal (2015)
- Leonora LaPeter Anton, Anthony Cormier, Michael Braga & Esther Htusan (2016)
- Eric Eyre (2017)
- The Washington Post (2018)
- Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan & Paul Pringle (2019)
- Brian Rosenthal (2020)
- Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen & Brendan McCarthy (2021)
- Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington & Eli Murray (2022)
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2023)