Pulitzer Winner Speaks on Journalism, Democracy
By TERESA WINCHESTER
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Since 2003, Mike McIntire has been reporting for the “New York Times” on issues such as health and safety, public institutions, white collar crime, Wall Street bailouts, terrorism, gun violence, and more. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, sharing his first award while reporting for "The Hartford (Connecticut) Courant" for breaking news reporting. He subsequently received Pulitzers for his reporting on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and, in 2021, for reporting on the nefarious underpinning beneath “routine” traffic stops across the United States.
On Thursday, February 22, McIntire returned to his alma mater, Hartwick College, to give the 2024 Leslie G. Rude Memorial Lecture, titled “Investigative Journalism and Democracy,” appearing at the invitation of the college’s Institute of Public Service. Speaking to an audience of approximately 90 people gathered in the theater of Hartwick’s Anderson Center for the Arts, McIntire talked about his early experience in journalism, the evolution of investigative journalism, and briefly reviewed a number of his own articles on topics such as former President Donald Trump’s undisclosed income tax returns, his tax avoidance, and his personal involvement in the January 6, 2020 insurrection at the United States Capitol.
