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American journalist

Nigel Jaquiss (born 1962) is an American journalist who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prizefor investigative reporting, for his work exposing former Oregon GovernorNeil Goldschmidt's sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl while he was mayor of Portland, Oregon.^[1] His story was published in Willamette Week in May 2004. He continues to write for Willamette Week.^[2]

Education and career

Jaquiss graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984;^[1] he spent eleven years as a Wall Street and Singapore-based crude oil trader, working for Cargill, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. He sought a career change, eventually enrolling at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where he got his master's degree in 1997.^[3]

He began his journalism career in Portland in January 1998, working for Willamette Week. One of his first major stories was an exposé of toxic mold and unsafe levels of radon at Whitaker Middle