Finalist: Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi of the Tampa Bay Times
For impactful reporting, based on sophisticated data analysis, that revealed an alarming rate of patient fatalities following Johns Hopkins’ takeover of a pediatric heart treatment facility.
Nominated Work
December 2, 2018
December 30, 2018
December 9, 2018
April 22, 2018
November 28, 2018
December 12, 2018
May 16, 2018
December 17, 2018
Biography
Kathleen McGrory is the deputy investigations editor at the Tampa Bay Times. She was previously the newspaper's health and medicine reporter. She joined the Times in 2015.
Neil Bedi is an investigative reporter at the Tampa Bay Times. He was previously a data reporter and developer. He joined the Times in 2016.
Winners
Prize Winner in Investigative Reporting in 2019:
Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times
For consequential reporting on a University of Southern California gynecologist accused of violating hundreds of young women for more than a quarter-century.
Investigative Reporting
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Investigative Reporting in 2019:
David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times
For an exhaustive 18-month investigation of President Donald Trump’s finances that debunked his claims of self-made wealth and revealed a business empire riddled with tax dodges. (Moved by the Board to the Explanatory Reporting category.)
The Jury
The Jury
Matthew Doig(Chair)
Network Investigations Editor
Michael J. Berens*
Investigative Reporter
David Boardman
Dean, Klein College of Media and Communications, Temple University
Michael I. Days
Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion
Chris Hamby*
Investigative Reporter
Joe Sexton
Senior Editor
Jeff Taylor*
Executive Editor, News, USA Today
Winners in Investigative Reporting
Staff of The Washington Post
For purposeful and relentless reporting that changed the course of a Senate race in Alabama by revealing a candidate’s alleged past sexual harassment of teenage girls and subsequent efforts to undermine the journalism that exposed it.
Eric Eyre
For courageous reporting, performed in the face of powerful opposition, to expose the flood of opioids flowing into depressed West Virginia counties with the highest overdose death rates in the country.
Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier of the Tampa Bay Times and Michael Braga of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
For a stellar example of collaborative reporting by two news organizations that revealed escalating violence and neglect in Florida mental hospitals and laid the blame at the door of state officials.
Eric Lipton
For reporting that showed how the influence of lobbyists can sway congressional leaders and state attorneys general, slanting justice toward the wealthy and connected.
2019 Prize Winners
South Florida Sun Sentinel
For exposing failings by school and law enforcement officials before and after the deadly shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times
For an exhaustive 18-month investigation of President Donald Trump’s finances that debunked his claims of self-made wealth and revealed a business empire riddled with tax dodges. (Moved by the Board from the Investigative Reporting category, where it was also entered.)
Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times
For consequential reporting on a University of Southern California gynecologist accused of violating hundreds of young women for more than a quarter-century.
Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post
For trenchant and searching reviews and essays that joined warm emotion and careful analysis in examining a broad range of books addressing government and the American experience.