Kathy BestAfter four decades in professional newsrooms, Kathy Best moved to academia in June 2019 to train the next generation of investigative reporters as the inaugural director of the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland.Best was previously the executive editor of The Seattle Times, which she helped lead to two Pulitzer Prizes for breaking news coverage in print and online. She was also the editor of the Missoulian in Missoula, Montana, and a top editor at The Sun in Baltimore, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As a reporter for the Post-Dispatch, she covered Congress, the Supreme Court and national politics in the paper's Washington, D.C., Bureau and Illinois politics, government and corruption in the Springfield, Ill., Bureau. Read More Read Less