Doug Pardue is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has spent nearly 50 years in a newspaper career, mostly as investigative reporter and editor. He was the lead reporter on a four-member team at The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Pulitzer’s top award. That five-part investigative series, “Till Death Do Us Part,” examined why South Carolina was one of the ten deadliest states for women. The story stunned the state’s lawmakers, prompting major improvements of state laws to better protect victims of domestic violence and punish perpetrators.

Before joining The Post and Courier in 2003 as its first investigations editor, Pardue worked for USA Today, where he created that newspaper’s first Investigative reporting team. Prior to joining USA Today Pardue started and ran the first investigative reporting teams at The Tampa Tribune and The State (Columbia, S.C.). From 1976 to 1993, he was a law enforcement and investigative reporter for The Roanoke Times & World-News in Virginia where he and a small team of reporters were 1990 Pulitzer Prize finalists in general news for their coverage of the year-long Pittston Coal strike.

Pardue’s reporting has won numerous other national awards including: The George Polk Award; The Dart Award; The Silver Gavel Award, Three First Place National Headliner awards, The ASNE Award for Local Accountability Reporting and a Robert F. Kennedy Citation. He has been named Journalist of the Year in both Virginia and South Carolina.

He is married to Judy with three daughters and eight grandchildren.

He also is a fan of the University of Colorado Buffaloes and that Washington football team for both of which he quietly suffers on weekend afternoons.