During a long career, Murray Waas has worked as the investigations editor for VICE, as an investigative reporter for Reuters, and as a senior editor for National Journal. He has also written or reported for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and other magazines and newspapers.

Murray Waas has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of national reporting and has been a winner of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for his reporting about covert U.S. foreign policy leading up to the first war with Iraq. Murray Waas has most recently been a winner of the Barlett & Steele Aard for Investigative Business Reporting and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers' Investigative reporting prize-- both for writing a "searing expose" of the health insurance industry.

From the Atlantic archive:

Dan Bogden, one the nine U.S. attorneys infamously axed by the Bush Administration, may never get to the bottom of his mysterious firing. But he just might soon have his old job back.

Murray Waas