Mark Katches
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Mark Katches was the assistant managing editor for projects and investigations at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . He joined the Journal Sentinel in November 2006 and helped build a 10-person watchdog team. He previously worked at the Orange County Register as Senior Team leader, where he twice managed projects that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. From 1996-2001 he was a reporter at the paper, where he covered government and politics before becoming an investigative reporter.

In 2001, he was part of a reporting team that won the Gerald Loeb, Sigma Delta Chi, and IRE awards for a series of stories detailing the rising profits from the human tissue trade. Before that, Katches worked at the Los Angeles Daily News and the Peninsula Times Tribune in Palo Alto, CA. A member of the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors, which represents some 4,500 journalists worldwide, Katches earned a BA in journalism from San Jose State University, and a diploma in social sciences from Flinders University.

Listen to Katches on his role in investigations