Executive Editor Mark Tapscott was named Conservative Journalist of the Year for 2008 by the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and he was inducted into the First Amendment Center's Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame in 2006. 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 transparency and accountability issues in the federal government. He appears regularly as an opinion analyst 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.
