Michael D. Sallah is an Americaninvestigative reporter and non-fiction author who has twice been awarded thePulitzer Prize and is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.
While working forThe Toledo Blade, he received numerous state and national awards for his investigative stories into organized crime, clerical sexual abuse and white-collar fraud. He was named Best Reporter in Ohio in 2002 by the Society of Professional Journalists.[1]
In 2005, he became an investigative reporter and editor at theMiami Herald, where he directed numerous projects including a series on public housing corruption[3] that won the 2007Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.[4]He was a Pulitzer finalist for meritoriousPublic Service in 2012 for a series exposing wretched and deadly conditions in Florida's assisted living facilities.[5] He worked two years atThe Washington Post, and returned in 2014 toThe Miami Herald, where he was a Pulitzer finalist for Local Reporting in 2016 for stories that exposed a corrupt police sting operation that laundered $71.5 million for drug cartels—kept millions in profits—but did not make a single arrest.[6] He was a member of the reporting team that was a Pulitzer finalist for International Reporting in 2021 for its work at theInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists and BuzzFeed News on theFinCEN Files investigation, which revealed the role of big banks in allowing criminal organizations to move billions of dollars through the financial institutions.[7]
WithMitch Weiss.The Yankee Comandante: The Untold Story of Courage, Passion, and One American's Fight to Liberate Cuba. Lyons Press, 2015.ISBN0762792876
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
