Jeff Gerth is a former investigative reporter for The New York Times who has written lengthy, probing stories that drew both praise and criticism.
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16 Facts About Jeff Gerth
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Jeff Gerth won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for covering the transfer of American satellite-launch technology to China.
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Jeff Gerth broke stories about the Whitewater controversy and the Chinese scientist Wen Ho Lee.
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Jeff Gerth was a varsity golfer at Northwestern University where he got a degree in business administration.
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Jeff Gerth began his career not in newspapers but in the marketing department of Standard Oil of Ohio; he was assigned to write down license plates of vehicles pulling in and out of gas stations to find out why drivers were choosing Standard Oil's rivals.
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Jeff Gerth worked for the 1972 George McGovern presidential campaign, investigating some aspects of the Watergate scandal.
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Jeff Gerth collaborated with Seymour Hersh of The New York Times, who recommended that the newspaper should hire him.
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Jeff Gerth joined the newspaper in 1976 and spent most of his career in their Washington, DC bureau.
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In March 1992, Gerth revealed that beginning in 1978, while Bill Clinton was Arkansas attorney general, he and his wife Hillary were partners in an Ozark real estate deal with James B McDougal.
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Jeff Gerth's stories raised the question of whether it was appropriate for a governor to be in business partnership with someone having immediate financial interests in an industry regulated by the state.
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Jeff Gerth reported a controversial Sunday meeting between Clinton and his personal secretary, Betty Currie.
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On March 6,1999, Jeff Gerth reported that an unidentified Chinese American, later identified as Wen Ho Lee, stole secrets for US nuclear bombs.
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In 2004, Jeff Gerth was a visiting professor at Princeton University, where he taught an undergraduate seminar on investigative reporting.
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Jeff Gerth left The New York Times in 2005, and joined the staff of ProPublica in February 2008.
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In Yellow Face, Jeff Gerth's character is only referred to as "Name Withheld on Advice of Counsel".
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Jeff Gerth married at thirty-nine and became a father a year later.
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