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Gary Cohn has been a reporter for more than 20 years. He joined The Baltimore Sun in October 1993. Before then, Cohn worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer for seven years. He also has worked for The Wall Street Journal, the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader and for columnist Jack Anderson in Washington.
Cohn has reported and written investigative series on issues ranging
from corruption inside Philadelphia's largest municipal union
to the inability of police to overcome language barriers and solve
crimes involving Hispanic farm workers. In 1995, he wrote a four-part
series for The Sun detailing how a CIA-trained Honduran army unit known as Battalion
316 kidnapped, tortured and murdered suspected subversives in
Honduras during the 1980s -- with U.S. knowledge and complicity.
Many of Cohn's stories helped bring about significant reforms.
He has won numerous national journalism awards, including the
Edward W. Scripps First Amendment Award, the Selden Ring Award
and the Overseas Press Club of America award. He also was a finalist
for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Cohn was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He earned his bachelor's degree
in psychology and political science at the State University of
New York at Buffalo. He completed the first year of law school at the University
of California at Berkeley, took a year's leave of absence to work
as a reporter, and decided he liked journalism too much to ever
go back.
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