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ProPublica hires Papajohn as senior editor

George Papajohn

ProPublica has named George Papajohn senior editor, helping edit projects from the national newsroom and ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network.

Papajohn joined from BuzzFeed News, where he was an editor, government accountability and investigations. Before that, he was an investigations editor/associate managing editor at the Chicago Tribune.

He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and is an eight-time Pulitzer finalist and winner of numerous other major awards.

Papajohn has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Mariam Ahmed

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