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Jon Murray
Jon Murray is the senior editor for public affairs, leading a team of reporters who cover local and state government and big public policy issues. Until August 2023 he was an enterprise reporter with a focus on transportation. He previously covered Denver city government. He grew up in Colorado and joined The Post in 2014 after a decade at The Indianapolis Star, where he was a reporter in stints covering city hall, the legal system, education and military affairs. He graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and history. He has won multiple awards from the Colorado Press Association, most recently sharing a first-place award for best news story in 2021 with two Denver Post colleagues for their report, "58 minutes of terror: How the Boulder King Soopers shooting unfolded."
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