Michael M. York | |
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Born | High Point, North Carolina, U.S. | April 10, 1953
Occupation | Attorney, journalist |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Kentucky (BA) University of North Carolina School of Law (JD) |
Genre | Investigative journalism |
Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, 1986 |
Spouse | Rebecca Todd |
Children | 3 |
Michael M. "Mike" York (born April 10, 1953) is an American journalist and attorney. In the early 1980s, as the Washington correspondent for the Lexington Herald-Leader, he co-authored a series of exposes on improper cash payoffs to University of Kentucky basketball players which won him and his co-author, Jeffrey A. Marx, the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.