Dan Keating

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Dan Keating

» Database Editor | Dan Keating is a Post database editor. He joined the newspaper in 1999 after 11 years at the Miami Herald. Keating was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1999 for work on vote fraud in a mayoral election in Miami. He worked on a story about abuse of police overtime that was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1998. After four years in Key West that included reporting from Cuba, Keating began specializing in computer-assisted reporting in 1993.

He has worked with census demographics, election results, crime records, traffic-crash data and other sources. He co-led a media consortium that recounted the ballots from the 2000 presidential election in Florida. His most recent projects have been on D.C. government spending without contracts, D.C. schools paying millions to send children to private schools and D.C. school problems.

Keating was born in Quincy, Mass., earned a psychology degree from Williams College and worked at the Berkshire Eagle.

Articles by Dan Keating

Some D.C. Principals Credit Rhee for Big Gains in Test Scores (July 11, 2008)

Tax Suspect's Guidance on Software Left D.C. at Risk (June 10, 2008)

City Paid Firm More Than $2 Million in Improper Charges, Auditor Says (May 22, 2008)

Politics Could Stop Proposed Contract, Bid Winner Says (May 10, 2008)

Burglaries Have Surged 21 Percent (April 20, 2008)

Lottery Contract Eyed for New Firm (April 7, 2008)

Students Walk Out to Protest Security Policy (April 1, 2008)

Abandoned Computers Explained (February 9, 2008)

Tax Office Computer Servers Found by Trash (February 8, 2008)

Not Maintained, Costly Heating Systems Fail in Droves (December 31, 2007)

D.C. Tax Scandal At $44.3 Million, Analysis Finds (December 2, 2007)