Name Robert Kolker | Role Editor | |
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Books Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Nonfiction | ||
Robert Kolker is a projects and investigations reporter for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businesweek, a former contributing editor at New York Magazine, and the author of Lost Girls, a New York Times best-seller that was named one of Publisher's Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2013.
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Bloomberg and New York Magazine
Kolker's longform journalism for Bloomberg and at New York often focuses on everyday people caught up in extraordinary events. His 2006 investigation into sexual abuse in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community helped bring an abuser to justice and was nominated for a National Magazine Award. His exploration of an eighteen-year murder-exoneration case and the police tactics that can lead to false confessions received the Harry Frank Guggenheim 2011 Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award.
Lost Girls
Kolker's 2013 book Lost Girls recounts the lives of five sex workers murdered by the Long Island Serial Killer, and recounts the story of the hunt for the as-yet-unidentified killer. It also explores the implications of the emergence of on-line personal ads as a major vehicle for sex work. The book received wide critical acclaim.