Macenka, Joseph

Joseph Macenka is an award-winning journalist and author living in Richmond, Virginia.

He has more than thirty-five years of experience in the news business, including sixteen years working with the Associated Press. Throughout his career, he has covered a wide variety of topics-from the world's largest death-row prison escape, to the Virginia Tech shooting, to the Olympics and the NFL.

In 2009, Macenka's three-part series about the shooting death of a promising young Virginia Commonwealth University student got him nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in feature writing.

Inspired by the un...