Joe Stephens joined The Washington Post in 1999 and specializes in in-depth enterprise reporting. He has won more than a dozen national honors, including three George Polk Awards. With colleagues, he has written three series that have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, including an examination of the growth of the nation’s largest environmental organization and an investigation into abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Other topics on which he has written extensively include the presidential race, political corruption, the war against terrorism, Afghan reconstruction, the federal judiciary and drug experiments conducted on children in the Third World. Joe was named a 2012 Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.