Mary Pat Flaherty Biography
Mary Pat Flaherty is a journalist from the United States who focuses on investigative and long-term stories. She is the recipient of multiple national honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for Specialized Reporting. She joined the Washington Post in 1993 after working for the Pittsburgh Press.
Mary Pat Flaherty Age
Mary Pat Flaherty Education
She earned a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 1977.
Mary Pat Flaherty Parents
Flaherty was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Patrick and Mary Lydon Flaherty.
Mary Pat Flaherty Career
In 1975, she interned at the Pittsburgh Press. She worked as a reporter and eventually as an editor at the paper after graduating. She and Andrew Schneider were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Specialized Reporting in 1986 for their series “The Challenge of a Miracle: Selling the Gift.” After a 10-month study of the United States’ kidney transplant system and its exploitation by rich foreign nationals who avoided long wait lists, Flaherty and Schneider began publishing the 13-article series in November 1985. She worked with Schneider again on Presumed Guilty: The Law’s Victims in the War on Drugs, a 1991 series about asset seizure and forfeiture.
She left the Washington Post in 1993 to work as an investigative projects editor before returning to investigative reporting in 2000. She and Keith A. Harriston were finalists for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series of articles on the recruiting practices of the Washington, D.C. Police Department. Flaherty, together with Joe Stephens, Deborah Nelson, Karen DeYoung, John Pomfret, Sharon LaFraniere, and Doug Struck, co-wrote “The Body Hunters,” a six-part Washington Post investigative series about American drug companies performing experiments in Third World countries, in 2001. The series received the Society of Professional Journalists’ investigative reporting prize and the Overseas Press Club of America’s Malcolm Forbes prize for international business reporting.
Flaherty has also worked on a 2001 report on defective testing of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey Marine helicopter and a 2013 exposé on large losses caused by fraud and embezzlement at charity organizations. She was inducted into the Medill School of Journalism Hall of Fame in 2014. She has also received George Polk Awards and SDX national honors.
Mary Pat Flaherty Net Worth
Pat has an estimated net worth of 1.5 million dollars.