Education
Kors is from Walnut Creek, California, where he attended Las Lomas High School. He has a master"s degree from the Columbia School of Journalism in New York and graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College.
Kors is from Walnut Creek, California, where he attended Las Lomas High School. He has a master"s degree from the Columbia School of Journalism in New York and graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College.
He covers military and veterans" issues. Kors is currently working on a law degree at Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville, Tennessee. Before moving to New York, Kors worked as a reporter for The Spectrum, a Gannett newspaper in southern Utah.
His reports included an examination of the Utah National Guard and an interview with Senator Orrin Hatch on stem-cell research.
From 2004 to 2005 Kors worked at KCBS in San Francisco, while reporting on politics and education for the Contra Costa Times. Kors earned national attention in 2007 for his work uncovering the veterans" benefits scandal.
His three-part series showed how military doctors are purposely misdiagnosing soldiers wounded in Iraq, labeling them mentally ill in order to deny them medical care and disability pay. He continued his reporting with American Broadcasting Company News, collaborating with Bob Woodruff on "World News Tonight" and "Nightline" pieces covering the scandal.
In July 2007 Kors testified before the House Committee on Veterans" Affairs, which convened to investigate his reporting.
His testimony led to the creation of several bills in Congress, including a new law governing military discharges signed by President Bush in January 2008. His work is featured in the American Society of Magazine Editors" anthology "The Best American Magazine Writing 2008."
Kors" reporting has been featured on Cable News Network, Public Broadcasting Service, British Broadcasting Corporation, KGO Radio (American Broadcasting Company News, San Francisco), Washington Post Radio and in print in the Huffington Post, Village Voice and Nieman Reports, Harvard"s journalism quarterly.