Joshua Boak has been a staff writer at The Blade since June, 2005. He graduated from Princeton University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he received the Philip Greer Award for Financial Writing. For his work about Ohio’s rare coin investments, Mr. Boak, 27, has shared recognition as a National Headliners award print grand prize and investigative reporting winner and as finalists for the 2006 Pulitzer for public service and The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. He currently reports on higher education.