Nigel Jaquiss 

(born 1962) is an American journalist who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for

investigative reporting, for his work exposing former Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt's sexual
abuse of a 14-year-old girl while he was mayor of Portland, Oregon.[1] His story was published
in Willamette Week in May 2004. He continues to write for Willamette Week.[2]

Education and career[edit]

Jaquiss graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984;[1] he spent eleven years as a Wall
Street and Singapore-based crude oil trader, working for Cargill, Morgan Stanley and Goldman
Sachs. He sought a career change, eventually enrolling at Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism where he got his master's degree in 1997.[3]
He began his journalism career in Portland in January 1998, working for Willamette Week. One of
his first major stories was an exposé of toxic mold and unsafe levels of radon at Whitaker Middle
School in Northeast Portland,[3] which led to the school shutting down and the building being
demolished.[4]

Goldschmidt story[edit]
Jaquiss almost lost his prize-winning scoop about Neil Goldschmidt when he and his editor (Mark
Zusman) decided to give Goldschmidt a full week to respond to the allegations Willamette Week was
planning to make. Goldschmidt, who had previously told Zusman to "go get 'em" after a lunch in the
middle of the paper's investigation, took his story to The Oregonian instead. Zusman told the
newspaper industry magazine Editor & Publisher that he and Jaquiss decided to post the story
online immediately, so as not to risk being beat by the daily. Jaquiss' Pulitzer represented only the
third alternative weekly paper to have been awarded the prize.[1][5]