Patrick J. Sloyan

Patrick Joseph Sloyan was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, known for reporting on the Gulf War during the 1990s and revealing deaths of American troops caused by friendly fire.

While working as a reporter throughout the following years, Sloyan graduated from the University of Maryland in 1963 with a degree in economics.

Since 2002, Sloyan had served as chairman of the Investigative Journalism Foundation. He also wrote for Rolling Stone, New Republic, the Nation, and the Guardian over the years. Patrick Sloyan died at the age of 82 in 2019 from colon cancer in his own home in Virginia.