Tax Higgins
Tax HigginsA CNBC.com reporter will leave the news organization for UCLA to attend law school.
He reports on politics and the Supreme Court.
He joined CNBC after graduating from the College of William and Mary. He was awarded the Mark of Excellence by the Professional Journalists Association in 2016 for the “campus shooting”. This is an in-depth series that exposes the police’s efforts to conceal information from the public after the campus shooting. In 2015, he was shortlisted for the Pinnacle Award finals for sports investigative journalism.
Before joining CNBC, Higgins was a Dow Jones News Fund business reporting intern and the editor-in-chief of The Flat Hat, a century-old William and Mary newspaper. He focuses on challenging official narrative stories about public safety issues, including sexual assault. In 2015, he won the University’s Rex Smith Award, which was established by donations from journalists including Walter Cronkite. In 2016, he was a J. Edward Grimsley journalism researcher at the university.
He also produced more than 100 clips for CNBC’s Closing Bell. Kelly Evans and Wilfred Frost.
