David Heath spent the past decade as an investigative reporter for The Seattle Times, where his work was three times a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He co-authored an investigation of conflicts of interest surrounding clinical cancer research at a Seattle hospital. Among the awards the series won was Harvard University's Goldsmith prize for investigative reporting, the George Polk award for medical reporting, the Gerald Loeb award, the Scripps Howard Foundation's public service award, the Associated Press Managing Editors' public service award and the Newspaper Guild's Heywood Broun award. Heath's recent expose on congressional earmarks was recognized with the Everett Dirksen award for best coverage of Congress from the National Press Foundation. Among his other previous honors was the John Hancock award for financial reporting. Heath graduated from Grinnell College and was a 2006 Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
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