Gary Marx
Reporter, Specialist
My Role
Gary Marx is an investigative reporter.
My Biography
Gary Marx is currently a projects reporter for the Chicago Tribune.
Marx started at the Tribune in 1988 as a Metropolitan reporter, and was the Tribune's South America correspondent from 1990 until 1994. Upon returning to Chicago, he covered criminal justice and was a member of the paper's projects team before rejoining the foreign staff in 2002 based in Havana, Cuba. In 2007, Marx was forced to leave Cuba after authorities refused to renew his press credentials because they deemed his coverage of human rights and other issues as “too negative.”
Marx began his journalism career in 1983 as a freelance reporter in Africa for the Christian Science Monitor and later joined the Orlando Sentinel where he worked as an editorial writer, city reporter, investigative reporter and foreign correspondent covering Central America and the Caribbean.
During his career, Marx has covered civil wars and U.S. military operations on three continents. His investigations have led to indictments for murder and other crimes, and sparked sweeping reform.
Marx is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting, and his other national awards include the Associated Press Managing Editor's Public Service Award, the Heywood Broun Award, a National Press Club Award, and an Overseas Press Club Citation. In 2007, he was awarded the 2007 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting of Latin America from Columbia University, and he also received the Inter-American Press Association Human Rights Award for his coverage of Cuba.
Marx has a BA from Harvard University and a Masters degree in African politics from the London School of Economics. In 2001, Marx was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and in 2008 he was Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Marx started at the Tribune in 1988 as a Metropolitan reporter, and was the Tribune's South America correspondent from 1990 until 1994. Upon returning to Chicago, he covered criminal justice and was a member of the paper's projects team before rejoining the foreign staff in 2002 based in Havana, Cuba. In 2007, Marx was forced to leave Cuba after authorities refused to renew his press credentials because they deemed his coverage of human rights and other issues as “too negative.”
Marx began his journalism career in 1983 as a freelance reporter in Africa for the Christian Science Monitor and later joined the Orlando Sentinel where he worked as an editorial writer, city reporter, investigative reporter and foreign correspondent covering Central America and the Caribbean.
During his career, Marx has covered civil wars and U.S. military operations on three continents. His investigations have led to indictments for murder and other crimes, and sparked sweeping reform.
Marx is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting, and his other national awards include the Associated Press Managing Editor's Public Service Award, the Heywood Broun Award, a National Press Club Award, and an Overseas Press Club Citation. In 2007, he was awarded the 2007 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting of Latin America from Columbia University, and he also received the Inter-American Press Association Human Rights Award for his coverage of Cuba.
Marx has a BA from Harvard University and a Masters degree in African politics from the London School of Economics. In 2001, Marx was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and in 2008 he was Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.