Polk Award Winners: Jesse Coburn
Jesse Coburn is an investigative reporter at Streetsblog. He won the Polk Award for Local Reporting for "Ghost Tags," his\xa0series\xa0on the black market for temporary license plates.\n\u201cYou can imagine this having never become a problem, because it\u2019s so weird. What a weird scam. I\u2019m going to print and sell tens of thousands of paper license plates. But someone figured it out. And then a lot more people followed. It just exploded.\u201d\nThis is the second in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's\xa0George Polk Awards in Journalism.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices