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James Grimaldi is winner of Pulitzer Prizes for investigative reporting and a member of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press' governing board, the Steering Committee.He works on The Wall Street Journal's investigations desk and is based in Washington, D.C., where he has written accountability stories about money, politics, government, charities, lobbying and campaigns. His work with a WSJ team won the 2023 Pulitzer for investigative reporting after finding thousands of senior federal officials investing in companies they regulated. That investigation followed an award-winning series a year earlier exposing more than 150 federal judges who owned shares of companies at the same time those companies had matters in their courtrooms. James and two colleagues won the investigative-reporting Pulitzer in 2006 for exposing the Jack Abramoff bribery scandal. A frequent journalism and public-records trainer, James is a member of the steering committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.James was a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University and a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. He is a past president of Investigative Reporters and Editors and a former board member for the Fund for Investigative Journalism, where he mentors grantees. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri Journalism School and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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