Awards
Pulitzer Prize
2022 - Local Reporting
Lead editor on a three-part series examining how the fire deaths of dozens of Chicago residents may have been prevented had city code enforcement taken the necessary actions.
Education Writers Association
2017 - Investigative Reporting
Investigated the City College of Chicago’s much-touted increase in graduation rates for the Better Government Association, which is a non-profit news and civic engagement organization. Comments from the Judges “This is fantastic investigative, public service journalism.” “This excellent investigation of cynical manipulation of data and degree requirements to enhance a 2-year college system’s academic profile … is undergirded by records requests, extensive interviews and sophisticated data analysis.”
Nieman Foundation Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism
2014 - Investigative Reporting
The Chicago Tribune has won the Nieman Foundation’s 2014 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism with “Red Light Cameras” a comprehensive series that exposed the corruption and mismanagement of a traffic-monitoring program that has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars from unsuspecting motorists in Chicago over the course of ten years.
Pulitzer Prize
2001 - Breaking News
As a member of The Miami Herald Team, "for its balanced and gripping on-the-scene coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents that took the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunited him with his Cuban father.