Dan Kane Biography
Dan Kane is a news writer and investigative journalist with The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, the United States of America.
Dan Kane Age
He was born Daniel Paul Kane in 1961, in the United States of America. Dan is 62 years old as of 2023.
Dan Kane Wife
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don’t have much information about He’s past relationship and any previous engaged.
Dan Kane Career
He is well-known for his role in unearthing and exposing the academic scandal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.According to accusations, Kane is credited with uncovering significant academic fraud in collaboration with whistleblower Mary Willingham regarding student-athletes who were directed to fraudulent classes. Kane received “violent threats, angry screeds, and Twitter flame campaigns” in response to his work, according to The New York Times. The investigation “first uncovered a pattern of lax oversight and risibly easy or nonexistent classes disproportionately benefiting athletes” .Kane began working for the News & Observer in 1997. He covered local and state government as well as North Carolina State University, as well as legislative corruption and the establishment of the state lottery.
His research on North Carolina’s hidden personnel law revealed how the state withheld considerable information about state employees from public inspection, prompting a new state law to hasten information-gathering regarding state employee compensation and performance. He received a First Amendment Award from the Associated Press Managing Editors for his contributions to information freedom. In 2013, he received an award for investigative journalism from the Associated Press Sports Editors group. He received a special recognition for his reporting on the 2010 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill football scandal, together with colleagues J. Andrew Curliss and Andrew Carter.
Dan Kane Awards
He received a special award for his reporting on the 2010 football controversy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Press Club of Atlantic City also presented the team with a National Headliner Award for education writing. He and Jane Stancill got the Duke University/Green-Rossiter prize for “distinguished newspaper work in higher education.”
Dan Kane Net Worth
Kane has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars.