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Michael J. Berens

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Michael J. Berens is an American investigative reporter. He won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.

Life and career

Berens began his journalism career as a copy boy for The Columbus Dispatch in 1981[1] while attending Ohio State University.[2] In 1995, he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting for a series "revealing inequities in the county municipal court system, including the widespread jailing of individuals too poor to pay fines for minor offenses and the release of other, more serious offenders who were able to pay."[3] He worked at The Columbus Dispatch for 13 years.[2]

In 1994 Berens joined The Seattle Times. In 2012, Berens and Ken Armstrong won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for "their investigation of how a little known governmental body in Washington State moved vulnerable patients from safer pain-control medication to methadone, a cheaper but more dangerous drug, coverage that prompted statewide health warnings."[4] Also while at The Seattle Times, Berens and colleagues Julia Summerfed and Carol Ostrom were finalists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for "their probe of sexual misconduct by health-care professionals that included creation of an extensive online database of offenders and caused a tightening of state regulation."[5]

After 10 years at The Seattle Times, Berens joined the Chicago Tribune as an investigative reporter. In 2017, he and Patricia Callahan were named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series on abuse and deaths in Illinois group homes.

Berens has also received Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism,[6] the Clark Mollenhoff Award for Investigative Reporting,[7] the Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award,[8] and the Gerald Loeb Award.[9]

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The Columbus Dispatch

The Columbus Dispatch

The Columbus Dispatch is a daily newspaper based in Columbus, Ohio. Its first issue was published on July 1, 1871, and it has been the only mainstream daily newspaper in the city since The Columbus Citizen-Journal ceased publication in 1985.

Ohio State University

Ohio State University

The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, Ohio State was founded in 1870 as the state's land-grant university and the ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862. Ohio State was originally known as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College and focused on various agricultural and mechanical disciplines, but it developed into a comprehensive university under the direction of then-Governor and later U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes, and in 1878, the Ohio General Assembly passed a law changing the name to "the Ohio State University" and broadening the scope of the university. Admission standards tightened and became greatly more selective throughout the 2000s and 2010s.

Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

The Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting was presented from 1991 to 2006 for a distinguished example of beat reporting characterized by sustained and knowledgeable coverage of a particular subject or activity.

The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded in 1891 and has been owned by the Blethen family since 1896. The Seattle Times has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Washington state and the Pacific Northwest region.

Ken Armstrong (journalist)

Ken Armstrong (journalist)

Ken Armstrong is a senior investigative reporter at ProPublica.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. In 2017, it had the sixth-highest circulation of any American newspaper.

Patricia Callahan

Patricia Callahan

Patricia Callahan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist for ProPublica.

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1953, under one name or another, for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series in a U.S. news publication. It is administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.

Awards

  • 1995 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting [3]
  • 2007 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (with Julia Summerfeld and Carol Ostrom) [4]
  • 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (with Ken Armstrong) [4]
  • 2017 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (with Patricia Callahan) [10]

Source: "Michael J. Berens", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2021, February 8th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Berens.

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List of American journalism awards
References
  1. ^ "Data Journalism 101: Self-guided training". Reynolds Center. 2013-10-22. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  2. ^ a b "The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Investigative Reporting". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  3. ^ a b "The 1995 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Beat Reporting". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  4. ^ a b c "The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Investigative Reporting".
  5. ^ "The 2007 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Investigative Reporting".
  6. ^ "Michael J. Berens wins Worth Bingham Prize for "Seniors for Sale"". Nieman Foundation. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  7. ^ "Clark Mollenhoff Award for Investigative Reporting Recipients". The Fund for American Studies. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  8. ^ "2009 Award Winners". White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA). Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  9. ^ "Historical Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  10. ^ "The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Investigative Reporting".
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