I'm a former reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger, where I shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Gov. Jim McGreevey's downfall. In 2008, the University of Colorado and the Denver Press Club honored me with the Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. That year, I covered a story that became the book A Chance to Win, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize, given by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. I am currently a national enterprise reporter for NBC's websites in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, Miami, Los Angeles, Bay Area, San Diego, Dallas/Fort Worth and Connecticut. I live with my wife and daughter in New Jersey.