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Stephen Kurkjian - Wikipedia

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Stephen Kurkjian

Education	Boston Latin School
Alma mater	Boston University Suffolk University Law School
Known for	Exposing the coverage of the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal
Relatives	Tim Kurkjian (cousin)
Awards	• Pulitzer Prize • George Polk Award for National Reporting

Stephen A. Kurkjian is an American journalist and author. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting in 1972 and 1980. Additionally, he contributed to The Boston Globe Spotlight Team's coverage of the clergy abuse scandal within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003. He also received the George Polk Award in 1982 and 1994. He won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in 1995.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Life

Stephen Kurkjian is of Armenian descent. A lifelong Bostonian, he is a graduate of the Boston Latin School, Boston University (1966) and the Suffolk University School of Law (1970). Kurkjian attended the latter institution as a part-time student while working as a general assignment reporter for the State House News Service and the Globe and remains a member of the Massachusetts Bar. Along with former wife Ann Kurkjian Crane, he became a founding member of the Spotlight Team (now the oldest investigative journalism unit in the United States) in 1970; from 1979 to 1986, he served as the unit's editor. He also served as the newspaper's Washington bureau chief and senior assistant metropolitan editor for projects before retiring in 2007.

His father, an artist, was a survivor of the Armenian genocide of 1915.^[6]^[7] His cousin is sportswriter Tim Kurkjian.^[8]

Peter J. Quinn investigation

In November 2005, Kurkjian contacted Massachusetts officials about conference trips made by the state's CIO, Peter J. Quinn. Kurkjian then wrote an article for the Globe suggesting a conflict of interest by Quinn.^[9] Conference organizers paid part of Quinn's trip expenses, and "a galaxy of computer companies are listed as sponsors of many of the conferences." The state investigated and cleared Quinn.^[10] He was in demand as a conference speaker because of his division's initiative to adopt for state documents the Open Document Format in place of Microsoft Office formats.^[9]^[10] After Quinn was exonerated, he resigned^[11] and said in an interview, "It was apparent from the questions that were coming from the Globe after the initial entry that things that had never occurred were being fed to the Globe to add more gasoline to the fire. In fairness to everyone close to me, it was time to say enough is enough."^[12]

References

^ "Stephen Kurkjian". Stephenkurkjian.com. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
^ "Stephen A. Kurkjian - resume". Law.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
^ e (2015-03-07). "Story Behind the Book: Stephen Kurkjian's "Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist." - Books". Bostonglobe.com. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
^ "Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church". Boston.com. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
^ Taylor, Art (2015-04-02). "A new look at a legendary art heist in 'Master Thieves' by Stephen Kurkjian". Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
^ Kurkjian, Stephen (22 April 2014). "Kiss My Children's Eyes: A Search for Answers to the Genocide Through One Remarkable Photograph". Armenian Weekly. ...my grandfather had been killed in the genocide, yet my father, a three-year-old in 1915, had survived to come to America to thrive.
^ Kurkjian, Stephen (18 April 1993). "Roots of Sorrow". Boston Globe.
^ Gregorian, Alin K. (January 2, 2011). "Armenian Mirror-Spectator Celebrates 78th with Gala". Armenian Mirror-Spectator. Baikar Association. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b Kurkjian, Stephen (26 November 2005). "Romney administration reviewing trips made by technology chief". Boston Globe.
^ ^a ^b Kurkjian, Stephen (10 December 2005). "Review backs trips by technology chief - No conflict found for aide". Boston Globe.
^ Kurkjian, Stephen (28 December 2005). "Technology adviser quits unexpectedly". Boston Globe.
^ Jones, Pamela (23 January 2006). "Peter Quinn's First Interview". Groklaw.

v t e Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time from 1953–1963 and the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting from 1964–1984
1953–1975	Edward J. Mowery (1953) Alvin McCoy (1954) Roland Kenneth Towery (1955) Arthur Daley (1956) Wallace Turner (1957) George Beveridge (1958) John Harold Brislin (1959) Miriam Ottenberg (1960) Edgar May (1961) George Bliss (1962) Oscar Griffin Jr. (1963) James V. Magee, Albert V. Gaudiosi & Frederick Meyer (1964) Gene Goltz (1965) John Anthony Frasca (1966) Gene Miller (1967) J. Anthony Lukas (1968) Al Delugach & Denny Walsh (1969) Harold E. Martin (1970) William Jones (1971) Timothy Leland, Gerard M. O'Neill, Stephen Kurkjian & Ann Desantis (1972) The Sun Newspapers of Omaha (1973) William Sherman (1974) The Indianapolis Star (1975)
1976–2000	Chicago Tribune (1976) Acel Moore & Wendell Rawls Jr. (1977) Anthony R. Dolan (1978) Gilbert M. Gaul & Elliot G. Jaspin (1979) Stephen Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi & Robert M. Porterfield (1980) Clark Hallas & Robert B. Lowe (1981) Paul Henderson (1982) Loretta Tofani (1983) Kenneth Cooper, Joan Fitz Gerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary McMillan, Kirk Scharfenberg & David Wessel (1984) Lucy Morgan, Jack Reed & William K. Marimow (1985) Jeffrey A. Marx & Michael M. York (1986) Daniel R. Biddle, H.G. Bissinger, Fredric N. Tulsky & John Woestendiek (1987) Dean Baquet, William C. Gaines & Ann Marie Lipinski (19) Bill Dedman (1989) Lou Kilzer (1990) Joseph T. Hallinan & Susan M. Headden (1991) Lorraine Adams & Dan Malone (1992) Jeff Brazil & Steve Berry (1993) Providence Journal-Bulletin (1994) Stephanie Saul & Brian Donovan (1995) The Orange County Register (1996) Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson & Alex Tizon (1997) Gary Cohn & Will Englund (1998) Miami Herald (1999) Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley & Martha Mendoza (2000)
2001–2025	David Willman (2001) Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham & Sarah Cohen (2002) Clifford J. Levy (2003) Michael D. Sallah, Joe Mahr & Mitch Weiss (2004) Nigel Jaquiss (2005) Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi & R. Jeffrey Smith (2006) Brett Blackledge (2007) Walt Bogdanich, Jake Hooker & Chicago Tribune (2008) David Barstow (2009) Barbara Laker, Wendy Ruderman & Sheri Fink (2010) Paige St. John (2011) Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan, Chris Hawley, Michael J. Berens & Ken Armstrong (2012) David Barstow & Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab (2013) Chris Hamby (2014) Eric Lipton & The Wall Street Journal (2015) Leonora LaPeter Anton, Anthony Cormier, Michael Braga & Esther Htusan (2016) Eric Eyre (2017) The Washington Post (2018) Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan & Paul Pringle (2019) Brian Rosenthal (2020) Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen & Brendan McCarthy (2021) Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington & Eli Murray (2022) Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2023)

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