Legal Commentary

We Have Great Alumni (Pulitzer Prize Edition)

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

I hadn’t realized that one of the members of the Pulitzer-prize winning team from the Detroit Free Press is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Law.

David Zeman, 50, is the paper’s assistant managing editor for investigations, having previously worked as an investigative and legal reporter at the paper. He is a 1981 graduate of the University of North Carolina and a 1984 graduate of the University of Miami Law School. He received a master’s degree in 1987 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Zeman previously worked at the Miami Herald and the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.

The team, which included two reporters, won for uncovering the Kwame Kilpatrick scandal.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on April 23, 2009 (boomark / email).