It will be a new position.
Check out this article about his early career, breaking the story on Philadelphia police brutality (remember Rizzo?):
http://www.trincoll.edu/pub/Mosaic/12.98/marimow.htmGETTING IT RIGHT IN JOURNALISM
In 1977, when William K. Marimow ’69 was a City Hall reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer investigating allegations of physical abuse and intimidation by Philadelphia police officers in the interrogation of homicide suspects and witnesses, winning a Pulitzer Prize wasn’t foremost in his mind; being accurate was.
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accusing the police of committing crimes and you’re a 29-year-old kid in a city where the mayor was the police commissioner and had been a cop on the beat and had risen through the ranks for 28 years -- almost longer than you’ve been alive -- you worry about getting it right," Marimow asserts.
To get it right, Marimow and fellow Inquirer reporter Jonathan Neumann pored over files and records covering four years of challenged homicide interrogations, studying trial transcripts, judges’ rulings, medical records, photographs and documents. In parallel, they managed to pursuade several detectives to talk about the cases in question. As a result of their investigation, Marimow and Neumann published a series of stories describing a police interrogation system in which suspects were handcuffed to metal chairs and beaten with lead pipes, blackjacks, brass knuckles and chair and table legs -- practices that one former detective himself called "a return to the Middle Ages." The duo’s work triggered a civil rights investigation which led to the indictment and conviction of six homicide detectives for conspiring to violate the civil rights of a suspect and witnesses in a fatal firebombing. And their investigative reporting earned the newspaper a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1978.
Skillful probing, thoroughness, and accuracy have been the hallmarks of Marimow’s 29-year career in journalism. He readily acknowledges that a career in journalism can "really make a difference in people’s lives." Marimow’s own ability to make such a difference was recognized again in 1985, when his reporting for an exposé that revealed Philadelphia police dogs had attacked more than 350 people earned him a second Pulitzer Prize.
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NPR website story:
http://www.npr.org/about/press/040322.marimow.html
In addition, he was The Philadelphia Inquirer's lead reporter on the newspaper's investigation of the confrontation between city police and the radical group MOVE. Those stories were a Pulitzer Prize finalist in the breaking news category in 1986.
Marimow has also been honored with the Silver Gavel Award (American Bar Association) in 1978 and 1982; Scripps Howard public service award in 1978; National Headliners award for investigative reporting in 1985; Sigma Delta Chi award for public service in 1978; Robert F. Kennedy print journalism award in 1978; and numerous state and local journalism awards.
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Google
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=William+K.+Marimow
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This is all very encouraging news from my formerly-favorite-news-network. They need some improvements.
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