Tom Bowman (journalist)

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Tom Bowman is an investigative reporter for the Baltimore Sun who has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

He has been The Sun's military affairs correspondent since 1997. Before then he covered the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and the National Security Agency. He has reported from Afghanistan and Iraq.

His 1995 series, "No Such Agency," a six-part chronicle of NSA with reporter Scott Shane, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Bowman grew up in Boston. He started his newspaper career in 1976 as a stringer for The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts.

He attended St. Michael's College in Vermont, receiving a bachelor's degree in history, and then received a Master's in American studies from Boston College.

Bowman presently lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife Brigid Schulte, a Washington Post reporter, and their children, Liam and Tessa.

[edit] Selected articles

  • 1995, "No Such Agency", 6-part series (nominated for Pulitzer)
  • March 17, 2000, "Unlocking the secret of Kryptos"

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