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M. L. Elrick running for City Council after leaving Detroit Free Press

M. L. Elrick
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Detroit Free Press vice president and editor Paul Anger, right, looks at the results as Pulitzer Prize co-winners Jim Schaefer, left, and M.L. Elrick, center, congratulate each other in the newsroom in Detroit, Monday, April 20, 2009. The Detroit Free Press won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for obtaining a trove of sexually explicit text messages that brought down the city's mayor. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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DETROIT (AP) — A journalist says he's running for the Detroit City Council after leaving the Detroit Free Press.

M.L. Elrick has filed paperwork to create a candidate committee for the 2021 election.

Elrick won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing scandals involving Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned as Detroit mayor in 2008.

Elrick says voters would get a watchdog who tries to ensure government works.

Besides working at the Free Press, he has been a reporter at two Detroit-area TV stations.

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