Tom McGinty is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist known for his use and advocacy of computer-assisted reporting.
McGinty grew up in Utica, New York.[1] He moved to Minnesota with his family when he was 15.[2] He attended college in Minnesota before moving to Utica College of Syracuse University in New York State, where he graduated in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in public relations and journalism.[1][2][3]
McGinty began his career in 1993 working for the Times of Trenton in New Jersey.[2][3] In 1999, he joined Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) as the training director teaching journalists how to use the Internet to aid their investigations.[4] He left in 2001 to join Newsday as a staff writer.[5]
McGinty and fellow Newsday reporters wrote a series of articles in 2004 detailing their investigation into a circulation scandal at the newspaper.[6] Executives had been inflating circulation numbers and the newspaper staff wanted to know how bad the corruption was, so they investigated the scandal themselves.[6][7] Their 75+ articles published from July through December were finalists for a 2004 IRE Award.[6][8]
McGinty left Newsday to join The Wall Street Journal at the beginning of 2008 as an investigative reporter specializing in computer-assisted reporting.[3][9] While there, his work was a finalist for several awards.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] He earned the 2011 and 2012 Gerald Loeb Awards for Online Enterprise.[17][18] He was part of a team that sifted through newly released Medicare records and produced a series of reports called "Medicare Unmasked" that earned the 2014 FOI Award from the IRE,[15] the 2015 Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative business journalism,[19] and shared the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism.[20][21] In 2018, he received the New York Press Club Award for Consumer Reporting (Newspaper) for the report, "The Morningstar Mirage".[22]
McGinty is married to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jo Craven McGinty.[23]
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