Mark Tapscott

Executive Editor Mark Tapscott oversees the newspaper's special reporting team, which was formed in February 2012. He was inducted into the First Amendment Center's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Hall of Fame in 2006, and was named the CPAC Conservative Journalist of the Year in 2008. Before joining the Examiner in 2006 as editorial page editor, he was director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Media and Public Policy and founded its Database 101 Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting (CAIR) Boot Camps at the National Press Club. He's a former assistant managing editor and managing editor for The Journal Newspapers and The Washington Times. A long-time member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, he is an advisory board member of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, and has testified before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on FOIA issues in the federal government. He appears regularly on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, and Talk Radio programs. Prior to his journalism career, Tapscott was a Reagan administration political appointee in the Senior Executive Service and before that a congressional press secretary and communications director.