Melvin L Claxton was born on 1958 and is an American journalist, author, and entrepreneur.
11 Facts About Melvin Claxton
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Melvin Claxton has written about crime, corruption, and the abuse of political power.
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Melvin Claxton is best known for his 1995 series of investigative reports on corruption in the criminal justice system in the US Virgin Islands and its links to the region's crime rate.
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Melvin Claxton's series earned the Virgin Islands Daily News the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1995.
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Melvin Claxton has won a number of national reporting awards and his work has been honored several times by the Associated Press managing editors.
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Melvin Claxton is the founder and CEO of Epic 4D, an educational video game company.
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Melvin Claxton began his journalism career at The Virgin Islands Daily News as an intern in 1983 while majoring in economics and journalism at the University of the Virgin Islands.
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Melvin Claxton went on to hold senior investigative reporting positions at The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit News, and The Tennessean.
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Melvin Claxton featured in a segment of Prime Time, the popular ABC-TV news magazine show.
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In December 1994, Melvin Claxton wrote a series of reports for The Virgin Islands Daily News.
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The reporting, largely the work of Melvin Claxton, initiated political reforms.