Tom McGinty is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist known for his use and advocacy of computer-assisted reporting.
[1][2][3] McGinty began his career in 1993 working for the Times of Trenton in New Jersey.
[5] McGinty and fellow Newsday reporters wrote a series of articles in 2004 detailing their investigation into a circulation scandal at the newspaper.
[6] Executives had been inflating circulation numbers and the newspaper staff wanted to know how bad the corruption was, so they investigated the scandal themselves.
[17][18] He was part of a team that sifted through newly released Medicare records and produced a series of reports called "Medicare Unmasked" that earned the 2014 FOI Award from the IRE,[15] the 2015 Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative business journalism,[19] and shared the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism.