Hakim shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 as one of the lead reporters on a team that covered the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.
St. John's has a less traditional approach, emphasizing discussion based learning and the study of great books.
He majored in philosophy, had no early interest in writing and briefly attended art school after his 1993 graduation.
[4] On March 10, 2008, he broke the story[5] that New York Eliot Spitzer had been "caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel."
[9] In 2012 Hakim was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for co-authoring a series on the abuse and neglect of the developmentally disabled in New York State nursing homes.
The articles identified over 1200 unexplained deaths over the previous decade, and led to the removal of top level administrators, the firing of 130 employees and the passage of laws protecting the disabled.