Joseph T. Hallinan
Joseph T. "Joe" Hallinan is an American journalist and author. He has written on the criminal justice system in the United States.
While a journalist with the Indianapolis Star he and shared the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting "for their shocking series on medical malpractice in the state." Hallinan was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. He has written Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation (2001).[1]
Hallinan has taught at a number of American colleges and universities, and was most recently a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University.[2] He has appeared on a variety of radio and television programs in the U.S. and abroad, including NPR's Fresh Air with Teri Gross and The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News.
Hallinan is a 1984 magna cum laude graduate of Boston University.[2] He lives in Chicago with his wife, Pamela Taylor, and their three children.
Books[]
- Errornomics
- Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, And Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
- Going Up The River: Travels in a Prison Nation
- Kidding Ourselves
References[]
- ^ "Everybody Wants One". archive.nytimes.com.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter to teach at Vanderbilt; The Wall Street Journal's Joseph Hallinan to instruct investigative writing course". Vanderbilt News. 29 December 2005. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- Non-fiction crime writers
- Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners
- American legal writers
- Living people
- Nieman Fellows
- The Indianapolis Star people
- Boston University alumni
- American non-fiction writer stubs