Murray Waas

In 1993, Murray Waas was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in the category of national reporting for his stories detailing the Bush administration’s pre-war foreign policy toward Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime. The Pulitzer Board cited Waas and reporter Douglas Frantz for “documenting the clandestine effort of the U.S. government to supply money and weapons to Iraq in the 1980′s and up to the weeks before the Gulf War.”

Also in 1993, Murray Waas also won Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.

More recently, Murray Waas won the Barlett-Steele Award in Business Investigative Reporting.

“Diagnosed with Breast Cancer, Dropped by Insurer” by Murray Waas of Reuters received the top gold award of $5,000. A six-moth Murray Waas investigation revealed that a giant health insurer had targeted policyholders recently diagnosed with breast cancer for aggressive investigations with the intent to cancel their policies. An exhaustive study by Murray Waas of records led to the story.