TONI LOCY

Toni Locy has worked for the nation’s biggest and best news organizations, covering beats ranging from the U.S. Supreme Court and the Mafia to state and city government.

A 1981 graduate of West Virginia University’s School of Journalism, she began her career at the former Pittsburgh Press. She also was a reporter at the Philadelphia Daily News, Boston Globe, Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today and the Associated Press. Locy’s specialty was covering federal courts and law enforcement.

Editors at the Boston Globe nominated her for a Pulitzer Prize for a four-part series she reported and wrote on the Boston Police Department’s inability to solve serious crime. She was one of three reporters at the Washington Post who wrote the first published story about the investigation of President Clinton’s relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Locy also was a member of a national investigative team at U.S. News & World Report. At USA Today, she covered the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack and its aftermath, including the Bush administration’s policies regarding terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere.

As a reporter at the Associated Press, Locy covered the U.S. Supreme Court and national legal issues. She left the AP in 2006 to attend the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Law, where she was awarded a master’s degree in the studies of constitutional and criminal law in May 2007.