Joe Stephens (journalist)
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Kansas City Star
Joe Stephens | |
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| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | Washington Post, Kansas City Star |
Joe Stephens is an American journalist for The Washington Post, and holds the Ferris professorship in journalism at Princeton University.[1] He is a native of Ohio and attended Miami University. He was an investigative projects reporter at The Kansas City Star before joining the Post in 1999.
Among Stephens most important investigative reporting series are pieces about The Nature Conservancy's business dealings[2][3] and "The Body Hunters", about multinational pharmaceutical testing scandals in Nigeria.[4]
In 2011, Stephens and his Post colleague Carol D. Leonnig revealed in a series of stories how the Obama administration pressed to approve a $535 million federal loan to Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer whose leading investors were tied to a major Obama fundraiser.[5]
Academia
Stephens was a visiting 2012 Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.[6] He was appointed to the Ferris professorship in residence at Princeton in 2014 [7] In 2018, he helped found Princeton's first formal Program in Journalism, and became its inaugural director.[8][9]