Robert Keith Hiaasen (February 9, 1959[1] – June 28, 2018) was an American journalist and assistant editor at The Capital, a newspaper published in Annapolis, Maryland.
[3] A native of Plantation, then a rural suburb of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Hiaasen began his career at The Palm Beach Post before joining The Baltimore Sun as a feature writer and where he later wrote a regular column.
[5] He conducted an award-winning investigation into the case of David J. Acer, the Jensen Beach dentist who allegedly infected his patients with HIV.
[8] Hiaasen later became a columnist where he wrote in-depth stories such as one about Roger H. Martin, who took an unusual sabbatical from a career as a university administrator to become a fresh student at St. John's College.
[9] Hiaasen also wrote considerably about Kirk Bloodworth, a death row inmate who was the first in the United States to be cleared of wrongdoing through DNA evidence.
[12] Hiaasen joined The Capital in 2010 as a Sunday columnist and assistant editor[2] and also worked as an adjunct professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.