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Mike Voss
Contributing Editor- Phone 252-946-2144, ext. 231
- E-mail mike.voss@thewashingtondailynews.com
Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986. Journalism awards: • Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990. • Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion. • Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award. • Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award. • North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989. • North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990. All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990. • North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991. • North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005. • North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006. Recently learned he will receive another award. • North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010. 4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.
Recent Articles
Wahoo! Fishing tournament gives back to community
A fishing tournament that began as a “redneck fishing tournament” now gives back to the community that supports it. This past weekend’s third-annual Reel Nauti ... Read more
Permit process continues
Although one permit (certification) for the proposed limestone aggregate quarry in southern Beaufort County was issued last week, the project has not yet been given ... Read more
Bill allows counties to own, build schools
Legislation in the N.C. General Assembly, if it becomes law, could take away all or some of the Beaufort County Board of Education’s ability to ... Read more
It’s nearly the right time for tasty citrullus lanatus
The recent rains — OK, downpours — likely resulted in some folks being upset for various reasons. Rain causes baseball games to be cancelled or ... Read more
