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Chris Adams
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E-mail Chris at cadams@mcclatchydc.com
Chris Adams joined the investigative team in 2003, and previously worked for The Wall Street Journal and The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune. His recent coverage of veterans’ health issues won the 2008 National Press Club award for best Washington reporting, the NIHCM Foundation Annual Health Care Journalism Award, and the Clarion Award. His previous reporting for the bureau on veterans issues or the drug industry won the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award and Society of Professional Journalists Award, both for best Washington reporting; a Heywood Broun Award, a National Press Club award, the Gerald Loeb Award, the National Headliner Award, and several others.
Before joining the bureau, his reporting won the George Polk, Robert F. Kennedy, Worth Bingham, Clark Mollenhoff, IRE, and Livingston awards. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 and 1999, and in 2000 was part of a six-person Journal team that won the Pulitzer for national reporting. He is a graduate of Iowa State University and the University of New Orleans. He also teaches journalism at American University.
Chris Adams's Latest Story
Mortgage foreclosures still swamping federal efforts to help
By Chris Adams | McClatchy Newspapers
Banks and other lenders are still foreclosing on Americans' homes at a rate that's outpacing the Obama administration's main effort to stem the crisis. The Treasury Department's Home Affordable Modification Program has started the mortgage modification process for almost 760,000 homeowners, less than 5 percent of those workouts have become permanent. One member of the Congressional Oversight Panel that monitors the program called it "a failure." » read more
Posted on Sun, January 3, 2010
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