Dan Morgan

Investigative

» Reporter | Dan Morgan has been a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent with The Post for more than 40 years. He covered the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the 1970 Polish workers uprising that presaged the Solidarity movement and the breakup of the Soviet Union. In Washington, he pioneered his paper’s coverage of trade and agriculture issues, leading to the publication of a best-selling book, “Merchants of Grain,” which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1980. Since then, he has covered a variety of economic and political stories, using Congress as a base.

His series on technology competition between Japan and the United States won the Gerald Loeb Award in 1982. Dan won the Dirksen Award for his series detailing the operations of the congressional appropriations committees. He is a co-author of the Harvesting Cash series on waste and abuse in the farm-subsidy program, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2007.