Bio

Gregory Korte is a reporter for the The Cincinnati Enquirer, where he covers the U.S. Census Bureau and the Recovery Act.

The Korte Family

In 2007, the Society of Professional Journalists named him the Best Reporter in Ohio. His foreclosure reporting that year earned state and national awards for investigative and business reporting, beating out competing coverage from The Wall Street Journal, the Miami Herald and Bloomberg.

Gregory helped pioneered the Enquirer’s Data Center project, an ambitious effort to transform newspapers and their web sites into to more useful, interactive sources of local information.  Before that, he was the City Hall reporter for five years, covering the 2001 and 2005 mayoral elections and the 2004 presidential campaign in Ohio.

He previously worked at the Akron Beacon Journal and the Lorain Morning Journal, where he was the lead writer for a Pulitzer Prize-nominated series on the alarming increase in the use of Ritalin to treat hyperactive children.

A 38-year-old West Side Cincinnati native, he attended St. Xavier High School and Ohio University. During college, he worked in the Washington Bureau of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and covered the 1992 national political conventions.

Gregory is chairman of its Ohio Freedom of Information Committee for the Society of Professional Journalists, and has won the SPJ’s national Sunshine Award for his work on First Amendment issues in Ohio.

Outside interests include obscure Cleveland Indians ballplayers of the 1920s and ’30s, old libraries and German beer. He lives in theCincinnati neighborhood of Westwood with his wife, Lisa, a school administrator for a suburban Cincinnati school district, and daughter Eleanor Cecelia.

(Last updated February 22, 2010.)