California Watch

Bio

Mark is the editorial director for California Watch. Previously, Mark built and ran investigative teams at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Orange County Register. He was the primary editor of Pulitzer Prize winning projects in both 2008 and 2010 and has edited or managed three other stories that have been Pulitzer finalists since 2004. Projects he has edited or directed have also won the George Polk Award, and the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award as well the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize, the Sigma Delta Chi Award and the National Headliner Award. In 2001, he was part of a reporting team that won the Gerald Loeb and IRE awards for a series of stories detailing the rising profits from the human tissue trade. A former adjunct professor at USC, Mark served on the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors and still oversees the IRE mentorship program. Mark also serves on the advisory board of the Texas Tribune.