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Stephanie Saul
OccupationJournalist
EducationB.A. in Journalism
Alma materUniversity of Mississippi
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
1995
Years active1975–
SpouseWalt Bogdanich

Stephanie Saul is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist known for her work at Newsday and The New York Times.

Early life

Saul grew up in New Albany, Mississippi.[1][2][3] In middle school, she wrote the "Snoop" column for the school newspaper.[3] In high school, she was the editor for the school's newspaper, and graduated in 1972 as part of the first fully desegregated class in New Albany.[3]

Saul entered the University of Mississippi in 1972 intending to pursue a medical career after graduation, which she saw as a better career opportunity than journalism.[3] She took journalism classes along with her pre-med studies and served on the staff of the yearbook and the school newspaper, the Daily Mississippian.[1][3] In 1975, she graduated with a B.A. in Journalism and membership in the Phi Kappa Phi honors society.[1][3]

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Career

Saul began her journalism career working for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, covering the state government and the state legislature.[1] In 1980, Saul, fellow reporter Patrick Larking, and photographers Laura Lynn Fistler and Tom Hayes earned The Clarion-Ledger the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association for their feature article on jail conditions in Mississippi.[4] In 1981, Saul and W. Stevens Ricks received the George Polk Award for Regional Reporting for their article "Mississippi Gulf Coast: Wide Open and Wicked."[5]

While working for The Plain Dealer, Saul, Mary Anne Sharkey, and W. Steve Ricks wrote a multi-part series in 1985 titled "A Law Unto Himself" that exposed the corrupt practices of Ohio Supreme Court Justice Frank Celebrezze.[6][7] Fallout from the series led to his electoral defeat in 1986.[6]

Saul joined Newsday in 1984[2][8] and was the paper's national reporter from 1994 to 2000.[3] Together with Brian Donovan, she earned the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting "[for] their stories that revealed disability pension abuses by local police."[8] Their investigation found a number of retired police officers in the state of New York receiving millions in disability payments for minor injuries.[9]

Saul moved to The New York Times in 2005.[2] Her article on the Deepwater Horizon disaster, co-authored with David Barstow and David Rohde,[10] formed the basis for the 2016 film of the same name.[11]

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The Clarion-Ledger

The Clarion-Ledger

The Clarion Ledger is an American daily newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi. It is the second-oldest company in the state of Mississippi, and is one of the few newspapers in the nation that continues to circulate statewide. It is an operating division of Gannett River States Publishing Corporation, owned by Gannett.

Silver Gavel Award

Silver Gavel Award

The Silver Gavel Award is an annual award the American Bar Association gives to honor outstanding work by those who help improve comprehension of jurisprudence in the United States.

American Bar Association

American Bar Association

The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students; it is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. Founded in 1878, the ABA's stated activities are the setting of academic standards for law schools, and the formulation of model ethical codes related to the legal profession. As of fiscal year 2017, the ABA had 194,000 dues-paying members, constituting approximately 14.4% of American attorneys. In 1979, half of all lawyers in the U.S. were members of the ABA. The organization's national headquarters are in Chicago, Illinois, and it also maintains a significant branch office in Washington, D.C.

The Plain Dealer

The Plain Dealer

The Plain Dealer is the major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio; it is a major national newspaper. In the fall of 2019 it ranked 23rd in U.S. newspaper circulation, a significant drop since March 2013, when its circulation ranked 17th daily and 15th on Sunday.

Frank Celebrezze

Frank Celebrezze

Frank D. Celebrezze Jr. was an American politician and jurist of the Ohio Democratic party, having served as Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.

Brian Donovan (journalist)

Brian Donovan (journalist)

Brian Donovan was an American journalist for Newsday who won the Pulitzer Prize twice, in 1970 and in 1995. He was inducted into the Press Club of Long Island's Hall of Fame.

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.

New York (state)

New York (state)

New York, often called New York state to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City, is a state in the Northeastern United States. With 20.2 million people enumerated at the 2020 United States census, its highest decennial count ever, it is the fourth-most populous state in the United States as of 2021, approximately 44% of the state's population lives in New York City, including 25% in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens; and 15% of the state's population is on the remainder of Long Island, the most populous island in the United States. With a total area of 54,556 square miles (141,300 km2), New York is the 27th-largest U.S. state by area. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to its south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to its east; it shares a maritime border with Rhode Island, east of Long Island; and an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec to its north and Ontario to its northwest.

Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig owned by Transocean and operated by BP. On 20 April 2010, while drilling at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. The fire was inextinguishable and, two days later, on 22 April, the Horizon sank, leaving the well gushing at the seabed and causing the largest marine oil spill in history.

David Barstow

David Barstow

David Barstow is an American journalist and professor. While a reporter at The New York Times from 1999 to 2019, Barstow was awarded, individually or jointly, four Pulitzer Prizes, becoming the first reporter in the history of the Pulitzers to be awarded this many. In 2019, Barstow joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism as a professor of investigative journalism.

David S. Rohde

David S. Rohde

David Stephenson Rohde is an American author and investigative journalist who currently serves as the online news director for The New Yorker. While a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his coverage of the Srebrenica massacre. From 2002 until 2005, he was co-chief of The New York Times' South Asia bureau, based in New Delhi, India. He later contributed to the newspaper's team coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan that received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and was a finalist in his own right in the category in 2010. He is also a global affairs analyst for CNN.

Deepwater Horizon (film)

Deepwater Horizon (film)

Deepwater Horizon is a 2016 American biographical disaster film based on the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Peter Berg directed it from a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O'Brien, and Kate Hudson. It is adapted from "Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours", a December 25, 2010 article in The New York Times written by David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul.

Personal life

Saul and her husband, fellow Times reporter Walt Bogdanich, have two sons.[8]

Source: "Stephanie Saul", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2021, November 26th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Saul.

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References
  1. ^ a b c d "Stephanie Saul". Ole Miss Alumni Association. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "My Life As: Stephanie Saul and Walt Bogdanich". Stony Brook University School of Journalism. April 14, 2010. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Bennett, Taylor (September 16, 2014). "Stephanie Saul". Meek School Alumni Magazine. Vol. 2014–2015, no. 2. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  4. ^ "Silver Gavel Award Winners – 1980s" (PDF). American Bar Association. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  5. ^ "Four staff members of the Times to get George Awards". The New York Times. March 1, 1982. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  6. ^ a b Davis, Dave (July 31, 2018). "Introduction". In Davis, Dave; Mazzolini, Joan (eds.). Plain Dealing: Cleveland Journalists Tell Their Stories. Pressbooks. MSL Academic Endeavors. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  7. ^ Sharkey, Mary Anne (July 31, 2018). "15. The ladies of the press". In Davis, Dave; Mazzolini, Joan (eds.). Plain Dealing: Cleveland Journalists Tell Their Stories. Pressbooks. MSL Academic Endeavors. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  8. ^ a b c "The 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Investigative Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes.
  9. ^ Jalawan, Hanna (October 22, 2013). "10 Questions With 2013 Ole Miss Hall Of Famer Stephanie Saul". hottytoddy.com. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  10. ^ Barstow, David; Rohde, David; Saul, Stephanie (December 25, 2010). "Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
  11. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (March 8, 2011). "Summit, Participant And Imagenation Target Oil Rig Tragedy". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
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