Jasper Craven

Jasper Craven

Jasper Craven is an investigative political reporter with bylines at The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, and Vermont Digger, among others. A Vermont native, he has covered everything from Bernie Sanders' presidential bid to Boston city council. While at the Globe he collaborated on Shadow Campus, a three-part investigative series focused on greed and mismanagement in Boston's off-campus student housing market. The series was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize.

  • In Cuba, Tattoo Artists Make More than Doctors and Lawyers

    Although tattoo artists operate on the margins of society, they make good money. Most Cubans working official, on-the-books government jobs earn only about $30 per month. “Being a tattoo artist, I can make more money than being in the government,” Sosa...