In 2018, he won First Place in the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Media Awards for commentary on issues of law and justice.
He was a recipient of the 2014 Common Cause of Pennsylvania Media Award for "distinguished reporting" on ethics and accountability in government.
He is the author of the book "On the Front Lines of Pennsylvania Politics: Twenty-Five Years of Keystone Reporting"(The History Press, 2012).
In 2020, he was interviewed by Penn State University's Department of Journalism for inclusion in its Pennsylvania Journalists Oral History Program.
[2] He studied at the Brookings Institution and worked in Congress as a Fellow of the American Political Science Association.