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Carl Prine’s Biography
Read Full Bio →For 16 years, Carl Prine was an award-winning investigative reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a major daily in Western Pennsylvania. He specialized in complex probes involving national security, crime and sports.
Then he became the military affairs reporter at the San Diego Union-Tribune before rising to become the editor of Navy Times.
Now he's a senior editor at Black Rifle Coffee's Coffee or Die Magazine.
Carl Prine’s Journalist Portfolio
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Awards
See all 5 awards →Investigative Reporters and Editors Award
2012 - PRINT/ONLINE - MEDIUM
Judges’ comments: A stunning example of good, old-fashioned, shoe-leather reporting. Reporter Carl Prine got a tip he relentlessly pursued in the face of enormous obstacles and personal peril. Prine, himself a military veteran, spent two years traveling across America and deep into Iraq to prove the story of how a U.S. Army staff sergeant fatally shot two innocent deaf mute Iraqi children and ordered the slaying of their handicapped cousin. The stories also charted an ongoing Army cover-up of the killings, false battlefield decorations and the accused gunman’s promotion. When the subject of the series made threats against the reporter and his wife, Prine wrote about that too. A courageous story and a wonderfully spun tale.
Military Reporters & Editors
2012 - Joseph Galloway Award for Distinguished Reporting on the military
Based on nine months of investigation, the series revealed shoddy facilities; bureaucratic red tape in providing mental health and medical care; officials evading responsibility for problems with delivering care; and expenditures of money on useless clothing and high-end office space.
Society of Professional Journalists Award
2014 - Environmental Reporting – Daily, First Place
Detailed, focused piece of accountability journalism built on solid, in-house data analysis.
Associated Press Media Editors Journalism Excellence Award
2015 - Pennsylvania -- Public Service
In reports published throughout 2014, the Trib showed that key VA officials misled congressional investigators looking into a fatal Legionnaires' disease outbreak, that high-ranking executives instructed a spokesman to stay quiet about the outbreak rather than warn the public and that officials misled patients, lawmakers and their supervisors by setting up “phantom clinics” that claimed to treat young combat veterans but didn't.
Associated Press Media Editors Journalism Excellence Award
2013 - Best of Show -- Pennsylvania
Tribune-Review investigative reporter Carl Prine received a Best of Show award on Friday from the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors for “Rules of engagement,” his investigation into the deaths of two deaf, unarmed teenage brothers by American soldiers in Iraq. Rules of engagement” also won a first-place award from the organization for investigative reporting.