Education
Grinnell College.
Grinnell College.
He graduated from Grinnell College, in 1981. He was a reporter at the Enid, Oklahoma News & Eagle, and the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. He was a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal.
He was an investigative reporter for The Seattle Times.
In 2002, he was visiting writer at Grinnell College. He was a 2006 Harvard Nieman Fellow.