Scott Higham

Investigative

» Reporter | Scott Higham is a member of The Post’s investigations unit. Before joining the paper in 2000, he worked for the Baltimore Sun, the Miami Herald and the Allentown Morning Call. At The Post, his assignments have included an investigation of the deaths of children who were under the supervision of the D.C. child-protection system. That project received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.

He has also examined the treatment of detainees held at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S. camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and investigated allegations of waste, fraud and abuse in government contracts. The Abu Ghraib investigation was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2005, and the series of articles on government contracting won the Investigative Reporters and Editors award for large newspapers that same year.

Scott is a graduate of Stony Brook University and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and serves as an adjunct professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.