Jesse Coburn
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Jesse Coburn is an investigative reporter at Streetsblog. His series on the black market for temporary license plates led to enacted or proposed laws in three states and won the George Polk Award. The series was also a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. His work has also received awards from IRE, the Overseas Press Club Foundation, the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the Deadline Club, the Sigma Awards, and the Silurians Press Club. He has also written for the New York Times, Harper’s, Cabinet, the Baltimore Sun, Motherboard, Foreign Policy, Hell Gate, and other publications. Previously he was a reporter at Newsday and an editor at ARCH+. Contact him at jesse@streetsblog.org or on Twitter.