American journalist
Kelly Carr
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Born
| 1980 or 1981 (age 42?43)
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Nationality
| American
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Occupation
| journalist
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Years active
| 1995?
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Awards
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Kelly Carr
is an investigative business
journalist
.
Early life
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As a young child in Pennsylvania, Carr went to Holy Name School, where she won an essay contest while in the third grade sponsored by the West Side Woman's Club.
[1]
In 1989, she was a member of the gymnastics team at the
YMCA
in
Pittston, Pennsylvania
.
[2]
She attended
Crestwood High School
in
Mountain Top, Pennsylvania
, where she played on the
volleyball
team.
[3]
She earned her B.S. in Journalism from
West Virginia University
in 2003, and her
M.F.A.
in Creative Nonfiction from
Goucher College
in 2006.
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
Career
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Carr began her career as a sports reporter for the
Times Leader
in
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
while still a high school student.
[4]
Throughout college, she worked as a sports correspondent for various news outlets, including the
Associated Press
.
[4]
After graduating, she worked as a general assignment reporter for the
Battle Creek Enquirer
, then moved to
The Arizona Republic
, where she worked as an education and municipal reporter, and became the Online Platform Coordinator in 2007.
[4]
[8]
Carr taught as an adjunct professor at Arizona State University's
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
, and became the training director and online producer for the school's Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.
[9]
[10]
While working for the center, Carr also worked as a freelance investigative reporter for
Reuters
.
[9]
Together with a team from
Reuters
, she wrote an award-winning series of reports on shell companies. The first report in the series, "A Little House of Secrets on the Great Plains", earned Carr and
Brian Glow
the 2011 Foreign Press Association Media Award for Financial/Economic Reporting.
[11]
The entire series earned the team the 2012
New York Press Club
Business Reporting Award for Newswire,
[12]
the 2012
Gerald Loeb Award
for News Services,
[13]
and the 2012
National Press Club
Award for Consumer Journalism, Periodicals.
[14]
In 2014, Carr and
Scot J. Paltrow
wrote "Unaccountable" for
Reuters
, a piece on accounting fraud in the
U.S. Defense Department
that won a
Goldsmith Prize
Special Citation.
[5]
[15]
[16]
Carr worked on the
Luxembourg Leaks
project for the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
(ICIJ).
[7]
[17]
The ICIJ team produced a series of reports beginning in 2014 on a cache of leaked confidential tax rulings by the
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
allowing corporations to save billions of dollars in taxes.
[17]
In 2016, Carr received a Spotlight Investigative Journalism Fellowship from
The Boston Globe
, which includes $100,000 to work on in-depth investigative projects.
[7]
[18]
Working with
Jaimi Dowdell
, she wrote a series called "Secrets in the Sky" about holes in the
Federal Aviation Administration's
registration process that won the 2018 TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting.
[19]
Selected articles
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References
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- ^
"Club sponsors essay contest"
.
The Times Leader
. No. 3655. May 3, 1990. p. 12D.
ISSN
0199-0519
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
– via Newspapers.com.
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"Attention-getter"
.
The Times Leader
. No. 3355. July 7, 1989. p. 1B.
ISSN
0199-0519
. Retrieved
February 7,
2019
– via newspapers.com.
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"Lake-Lehman defeats Crestwood"
.
The Times Leader
. No. 5612. September 12, 1995. p. 5B.
ISSN
0199-0519
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
– via newspapers.com.
- ^
a
b
c
d
O’Hara, Leila (2012?2013).
"Reynolds Center Reporter Receives Prestigious Awards for Investigative Piece"
(PDF)
.
The Cronkite Journal
.
1
(6): 86.
- ^
a
b
c
"SOJ alumnus receives(sic) Special Citation for Harvard's Goldsmith Prize"
.
West Virginia University Reed College of Media
. February 4, 2014
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
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"Kelly Carr M.F.A. '06 Wins 2018 TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting"
.
Goucher College
. June 20, 2018
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
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a
b
c
"Kelly Carr '06 Receives Elite Journalism Fellowship"
.
Goucher College
. July 6, 2016
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
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Lemons, Stephen (March 6, 2007).
"Meet the Arizona Republic's Orwellian Information Center"
.
Phoenix New Times
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
- ^
a
b
Watson, Warren (June 2012).
"Carr's Loeb award punctuates her commitment to investigative reporting"
.
Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
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"Kelly Carr"
.
SABEW Washington
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
- ^
a
b
Roush, Chris (November 23, 2011).
"Biz reporters win Foreign Press Association award"
.
Talking Biz News
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
- ^
a
b
"Associated Press Team Wins New York Press Club Gold Keyboard Investigative Journalism Award For Series, "NYPD Spies on NYC."
"
(PDF)
.
The New York Press Club
. May 10, 2012
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
- ^
a
b
"UCLA Anderson Announces 2012 Gerald Loeb Award Winners"
.
UCLA Anderson School of Management
. June 26, 2012. Archived from
the original
on April 12, 2019
. Retrieved
February 2,
2019
.
- ^
a
b
Roush, Chris (July 5, 2012).
"Shell game series wins another award for Reuters"
.
Talking Biz News
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
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"Shorenstein Center Announces Six Finalists for 2014 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting"
.
Shorenstein Center
. January 30, 2014
. Retrieved
February 19,
2014
.
- ^
a
b
"Previous Winners and Finalists"
.
Shorenstein Center
. Archived from
the original
on July 11, 2017
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
- ^
a
b
"About This Project: Luxembourg Leaks"
.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
. November 5, 2014
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
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"2016 Fellows"
.
Spotlight
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
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a
b
c
"TRACE announces 2018 winners of its Prize for Investigative Reporting: Kelly Carr and Jaimi Dowdell of The Boston Globe and Investiga Lava Jato, overseen by Convoca"
.
TRACE Foundation
. June 5, 2018
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
External links
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Gerald Loeb Award for News or Wire Service (2002)
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(2002)
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Gerald Loeb Award for News Services Online Content (2003?2007)
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(2003?2007)
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Gerald Loeb Award for News Services (2008?2014)
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(2008?2009)
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(2010?2014)
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- 2010:
Chris Adams
,
Greg Gordon
,
Kevin G. Hall
- 2011:
David Evans
- 2012:
Matthew Bigg
,
Nanette Byrnes
,
Kelly Carr
,
Laurence Fletcher
,
Brian Grow
,
Cynthia Johnston
,
Sara Ledwith
,
Joshua Schneyer
- 2013:
Anna Driver
,
Brian Grow
,
Jeanine Prezioso
,
Janet Roberts
,
Joshua Schneyer
,
David Sheppard
,
John Shiffman
- 2014:
Ambereen Choudhury
,
Gavin Finch
,
Bob Ivry
,
Liam Vaughan
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Gerald Loeb Award for Online (2008?2009, 2013?2014)
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(2008?2009)
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- 2008:
Art Lenehan
,
Anh Ly
,
Suzanne McGee
- 2009:
Lauren Barack
,
Mark Baumgartner
,
Peggy Collins
,
Richard Conniff
,
Elizabeth Daza
,
Rachel Elson
,
Sean Enzwiler
,
Joe Farro
,
Judi Hasson
,
Art Lenehan
,
Anh Ly
,
Aaron Whallon
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(2013?2014)
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Gerald Loeb Award for Online Commentary and Blogging (2010)
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(2010)
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Gerald Loeb Award for Online Enterprise (2011?2012)
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(2011?2012)
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- 2011:
Julia Angwin
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Paul Antonson
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Jill Kirschenbaum
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Jovi Juan
,
Andrew Garcia Phillips
,
Tom McGinty
,
Susan McGregor
,
Sarah Slobin
,
Emily Steel
,
Scott Thurm
,
Christina Tsuei
,
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
- 2012:
Jon Keegan
,
Neil King Jr.
,
Palani Kumanan
,
Mark Maremont
,
Tom McGinty
,
Sarah Slobin
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Gerald Loeb Award for Blogging (2011?2012)
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(2011?2012)
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