Trymaine Lee
American journalist
Trymaine D. Lee (born September 20, 1978) is an American journalist. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of Hurricane Katrina as part of a team at The Times-Picayune of New Orleans. From 2006 to 2010, Lee wrote for The New York Times, where he won a second Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal. From early 2011 to November 2012 he was a senior reporter at The Huffington Post. Since then, Lee has been a national reporter for MSNBC, where he writes for the network's digital arm and hosts the podcast Into America.
Background
Lee was raised in Chesilhurst, New Jersey. As a child, he showed an early interest in writing and athletics while attending Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pennsylvania. After obtaining an associate degree in communications studies at Camden County College, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. While at Rowan, he wrote for the school newspaper The Whit and was involved with the NAACP.
Career
Lee began his career reporting on police and crime at the Philadelphia Tribune and the Trentonian of Trenton, New Jersey. Outside of his work as a daily reporter, his work has also appeared in the magazines Ebony, Essence, Real Health and The Crisis.
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