Project: "A magazine-length article on America's efforts to replace petroleum as the transportation industry's mainfuel source."

Bio:

Isaac is a National Reporter at Scripps Howard. Covering consumer issues, he has written about topics ranging from food stamp fraud to children held for years in adult jails to radioactive ladies handbags.  Isaac's reporting focuses on Freedom of Information requests and data analysis, primarily through SPSS and Microsoft Excel. He also conducts interviews for Scripps' TV affiliates and edits wire content for the Scripps Howard News Service. His work, which emphasizes gaps in governmental efforts to protect the public, has received multiple awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). In May 2010, Isaac was named a finalist in the Livingston Awards for young journalists for an investigation of how loose radioactive material has made its way into consumer products including cheese graters and La-Z-Boy chairs. Prior to joining Scripps Howard in April 2008, Isaac was a staff writer at the Daily Southtown newspaper in suburban Chicago. He covered municipal issues, business and crime, visiting Chicago's morgue each morning. Wolf received first place in the Illinois Press Association's news reporting contest for exhaustive interviews with a firefighter who claimed for years to have been serving in the U.S. military but was actually working for a contractor.  Isaac attended the University of Chicago, where he studied economics. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife.