Isaac Wolf
Isaac Wolf is a National Reporter at Scripps Howard. Covering consumer issues, Wolf has written about topics ranging from radioactive ladies handbags to spuriously-labeled seafood to the $60 billion market for old credit card bills.
His work, which emphasizes gaps in governmental efforts to protect the public, has received multiple awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. In April 2012, Wolf was named a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ Tom Renner award for an investigation of children held in adult jails. And in May 2010, Wolf was named a finalist in the Livingston Awards for young journalists for an investigation of how loose radioactive material has made its way into consumer products including cheese graters and La-Z-Boy chairs.
Wolf's reporting focuses on Freedom of Information requests and data analysis, primarily through SPSS and Microsoft Excel. Wolf also conducts interviews for Scripps' TV affiliates and edits wire content for the Scripps Howard News Service.
Prior to joining Scripps Howard in April 2008, Wolf was a staff writer at the Daily Southtown newspaper in Tinley Park, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. He covered municipal issues, business and crime, visiting Chicago's morgue each morning. Wolf received first place in the Illinois Press Association's news reporting contest for exhaustive interviews with a firefighter who claimed for years to have been serving in the U.S. military but was actually working for a contractor.
A native of Raleigh, N.C., Wolf practically committed treason as a child: He supported the city's arch-rival, the University of North Carolina Tar Heels. Wolf attended the University of Chicago, where he studied economics and wrote for the student paper, the Chicago Maroon.
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