Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts of Reuters
Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley and Andrea Januta accept a 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting from Columbia University President Lee Bollinger. (Jose Lopez/The Pulitzer Prizes)
Winning Work
Biography
Andrew Chung is a correspondent at Reuters covering the Supreme Court and related issues. Andrew joined Reuters in 2014 after more than a decade at the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, where he reported both domestically and internationally and was most recently the Quebec Bureau Chief. Along with his colleagues his work on major projects has been recognized with the Society of Professional Journalists’ Deadline Club award, the AAAS Kavli science journalism gold award, and Canada’s National Newspaper Award. He holds a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Alberta, a master’s degree in journalism from Carleton University and a Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School.
Lawrence Hurley has covered the Supreme Court and related issues for Reuters since 2013. He has written about legal affairs for the bulk of his 22 years as a reporter.
Andrea Januta is an investigative and data reporter with Reuters in New York. Her work has focused on the court system, policing and the U.S. military. In 2018, she was part of a Hillman Prize-winning series exposing health and safety hazards in military housing that led to three federal investigations, a $386 million emergency inspection program, widespread repairs, congressional hearings and new legislation. Before working in journalism, she was a data analyst at Goldman Sachs.
Jaimi Dowdell is a data journalist with Reuters. Previously she was training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors. During that time, she trained thousands of journalists around the world in document- and data-driven reporting. In 2016, she received the Spotlight Fellowship for Investigative Reporting. She has a master's degree from the University of Missouri.
Jackie Botts covers income inequality and economic survival for CalMatters and the The California Divide media collaboration. She previously reported for the Data and Enterprise desk for Reuters News and for her hometown paper, The Santa Barbara Independent. Her coverage of immigration, the environment and justice has also appeared in Pacific Standard, Public Radio International’s “The World” and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications. She is a Report for America corps member and a graduate of Stanford University’s master’s program in journalism.