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Jim Haner is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for spot news, investigative reporting and explanatory journalism – and a member of the 1993 Miami Herald team that won the Pulitzer Public Service Medal for reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. He has been an investigative reporter for 20 years, working for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald and Baltimore Sun, among other major newspapers.

He has won a number of important national awards, including the 2003 Scripps-Howard Public Service Award, the 2000 Freedom Forum Excellence In Urban Journalism Award, Times-Mirror Journalist of the Year, two Associated Press Twain Awards for Public Service (2003 and 1995) and the Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Tom Renner Award for Reporting on Organized Crime (1998).

Currently, he is the head coach of the U12 MSI Montgomery Rapids, a select/travel soccer team outside Washington, D.C., and assistant coach of the Farmland Thunderdogs, a U9 recreation-level team. He holds an “E” license from the U.S. Soccer Federation and has coached more than 300 kids, ages 5-and-up, over the past six years in soccer, basketball and baseball.

A 1985 graduate of Temple University, the Atlantic City native lives near the University of Maryland, where he is an adjunct professor of journalism, with his wife Donna St. George of the Washington Post and their two young sons – both of whom play soccer.