Author

Phillip Martin

Journalist

Phillip Martin is senior investigative reporter for GBH’s News Center for Investigative Reporting. His awards include the 2022 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and 2019 and 2014 National Edward R. Murrow Awards for investigative reporting, as well as the Society of Professional Journalists 2017 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting.

Martin was selected as a 2022 Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and was a 1998 Nieman Fellow at Harvard. He earned a master’s degree in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and studied journalism at the University of California, Berkeley in the Program for Minority Journalists.

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