Mark Lagerkvist is a veteran investigative reporter who has won more than 60 journalism honors – including three Emmys and major awards from the National Press Club, Scripps-Howard Foundation, United Press International and Investigative Reporters & Editors.

Lagerkvist (pronounced logger-quist) began his career as a newspaper reporter in Michigan and Wisconsin.  His investigation of a prominent, yet unethical Milwaukee judge resulted in the jurist’s three-year suspension from the bench without pay.

As investigative reporter at WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, Lagerkvist won a UPI National Broadcast Award for a series on corruption in a rural Michigan county.  He also received an Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) Award for his report on county sheriffs who improperly profited from a USDA food program intended to feed the needy.

At WFLA-TV in Tampa, Lagerkvist investigated the deadly practices of the nation’s largest Medicare HMO.  For his expose, he received the Jack R. Howard Award from the Scripps-Howard Foundation for outstanding public service in large market television.

Lagerkvist returned to newspaper journalism as investigative reporter for the Asbury Park Press.  His series – “Profits vs. Patients” – revealed the secret deals between doctors and hospitals that compromised medical care.  It won a National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award honorable mention.  He was promoted to investigative projects editor at New Jersey’s second-largest daily newspaper.

The next stop was News 12 Long Island, where Lagerkvist started an investigative unit at the nation’s first 24-hour local news channel.  During a nine-year stint at News 12, he won 34 awards, including three Emmys and a National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award first-prize.  Lagerkvist also received the New York Press Club Gold Typewriter Award for outstanding public service for his reports on unsavory deals between a township government and garbage carters with mob ties.

At CNBC, Lagerkvist produced in-depth reports for the nation’s premier business channel.  Lagerkvist received two Business Emmy nominations for stories on broken pension promises and worker safety.  He also won a National Press Club honorable mention for a report on the tobacco industry’s failure to make a minor manufacturing change that could have prevented hundreds of fatal fires a year.

In his latest incarnation, Lagerkvist is editor and investigative reporter for New Jersey Watchdog, a news web site devoted to public service journalism. 

Mailing address:

New Jersey Watchdog
331 Newman Springs Rd., #143
Red Bank, NJ 07701

Email: Mark@Lagerkvist.net