birth_place nationality birth_date spouse article_title education name occupation
mineola , new york american 27 may 1946 janet gail thomas elliot g. jaspin
 colby college elliot g. jaspin journalist
elliot g. jaspin

elliot g. jaspin -lrb- born may 27 , 1946 -rrb- is a pulitzer prize-winning american journalist .
jaspin graduated from baldwin senior high school in 1964 and colby college in 1969 .
while writing for the pottsville , pennsylvania `` republican & herald '' , he won the 1979 pulitzer prize for investigative reporting with gilbert m. gaul for stories on the destruction of the blue coal company by men with ties to organized crime .
in the same year , jaspin won a scripps howard foundation edward j. meeman award and an american bar association silver gavel award .
