After moving to the '' Dallas Morning News , '' Miller covered cops and courts and also did some work for the state desk , including coverage of the Oklahoma City tornadoes in 1998 . He moved to the '' Washington Times '' in 2000 as a national reporter . For the next four years , Miller covered some of the biggest stories in the U.S. , including the 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida , Hillary Clinton 's senatorial campaign in New York and the riots during the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles . He was one of the first journalists from outside of New York to arrive at Ground Zero in the wake of 9/11 , coming into the shuttered city on a train that had been reserved for Amtrak employees to get home to New York the night of September 11 . Miller also delivered a series on the rise of wealth among African-Americans in the U.S. , which the '' New York Times '' nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 . In 2006 , Miller joined '' Brandweek '' , a business-to-business magazine that was part of the Nielsen Business Media chain . He covered the auto industry , delivering stories on the branding and marketing of cars both in the U.S. and abroad . In 2009 , he joined Texas Watchdog , a fledgling investigative news agency based in Houston , Texas . The Society of American Business Editors and Writers selected Miller 's 2011 coverage of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association , which resulted in a state takeover of the agency , as the winner of its award for digital investigation
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