Mitch Weiss

Mitch Weiss is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist. Over the last 25 years, he has investigated government corruption, white-collar crime, police misconduct, and clerical sexual abuse. His books include Tiger Force (Little, Brown, 2006), No Way Out: The Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan (Penguin, 2012), Hunting Che: How a Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary (Penguin, 2013), The Yankee Comandante: The Untold Story of Courage,...See more

Mitch Weiss is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist. Over the last 25 years, he has investigated government corruption, white-collar crime, police misconduct, and clerical sexual abuse. His books include Tiger Force (Little, Brown, 2006), No Way Out: The Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan (Penguin, 2012), Hunting Che: How a Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary (Penguin, 2013), The Yankee Comandante: The Untold Story of Courage, Passion, and One American's Fight to Liberate Cuba (2015), and The Heart of Hell: The Untold Story of Courage and Sacrifice in the Shadow of Iwo Jima (Penguin, 2016). Weiss currently works for the Associated Press on national investigative projects. Most recent national awards: IRE finalist for coverage of the national coal ash crisis, 2014; George Polk Award for coverage of the massive Gulf Oil Spill, 2010, and Gerald Loeb finalist for a project on how corrupt real estate appraisers contributed to the financial meltdown, 2009. See less