Jim Mitzelfeld, who earned a Pulitzer Prize as a Detroit News reporter in 1994 for exposing corruption in state government, and who later became a lawyer for the U.S. Justice Department, died Saturday morning after a battle with cancer. He was 64 and would have turned 65 on Sunday.
Mitzelfeld, who lived in northern Virginia, died under hospice care with his wife by his side, said a friend.
“Jim was an intrepid reporter, and his decision to head to law school deprived Michigan of a top journalist,” Eric Freedman, a former Detroit News reporter who shared the Pulitzer with Mitzelfeld, told Deadline Detroit…