Tracy Weber
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Tracy Weber (born May 12, 1963 in La Grange, Illinois) is an American journalist, a reporter for ProPublica.[1]
She graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. and M.A. in Journalism in 1989. She was a reporter for the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Times.[2]
With the Times in 2004, Weber and Charles Ornstein covered "the Trouble at King/Drew" hospital in a series of articles.[1] They shared the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service citing "courageous, exhaustively researched series exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital."[3][4] The series was recognized by other journalism awards, too.[1]
Another series by Ornstein and Weber, "When Caregivers Harm: California's Unwatched Nurses" in 2009, was a finalist for the Public Service Pulitzer.[1] The citation recognized LA Times and ProPublica for "their exposure of gaps in California’s oversight of dangerous and incompetent nurses, blending investigative scrutiny and multimedia storytelling to produce corrective changes."[4]
Weber is married, with two children.
Awards
- 2000 Pan American Health Organization Award
- 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service[1][3][5]
- 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award[1]
- 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service finalist[1][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 http://www.propublica.org/site/author/tracy_weber
- ↑ http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-tracy-weber_pulitzer-bio,1,5079048.story
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Public Service". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-03. With reprints of 20 works (L.A. Times articles, 18 published during December 2004).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Public Service". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-03.
- ↑ Eye on the Prize
