John Woodrow Cox
Washington, D.C.
Enterprise reporter with a focus on narrative journalism
John Woodrow Cox is an enterprise reporter at The Washington Post and the author of Children Under Fire: An American Crisis.
In 2018, his series about the impact of gun violence on children in America was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. He was also part of the team of Post journalists awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.
He has won Scripps Howard's Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Storytelling, the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, Columbia Journalism School’s Meyer “Mike” Berger A