Charles Ornstein
Charles Ornstein is an American journalist, a reporter for ProPublica.[1]
Ornstein is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he was editor of the college newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian. In 1999-2000, he was a Media Fellow with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. He is vice president of the Association of Health Care Journalists.[2] He was a reporter for the Washington bureau of The Dallas Morning News, and then the Los Angeles Times.
With the Times in 2004, Ornstein and Tracy Weber covered "the Trouble at King/Drew" hospital in a series of articles.[1] They shared the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service citing "courageous, exhaustively researched series exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital."[3][4] The series was recognized by other journalism awards, too.[1]
Another series by Ornstein and Weber, "When Caregivers Harm: California's Unwatched Nurses" in 2009, was a finalist for the Public Service Pulitzer.[1] The citation recognized LA Times and ProPublica for "their exposure of gaps in California’s oversight of dangerous and incompetent nurses, blending investigative scrutiny and multimedia storytelling to produce corrective changes."[4]
He lives in Burbank with his wife and son [5]
Awards
- 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service[1][3][6]
- 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
- 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service finalist[1][4]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 http://www.propublica.org/site/author/charles_ornstein
- ↑ http://www.newsu.org/angel/content/ahcj_hospitalBeat07/credits/credits.htm
- 1 2 "The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Public Service". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-04. With reprints of 20 works (L.A. Times articles, 18 published during December 2004).
- 1 2 3 "Public Service". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ↑ Charles Ornstein | Knight Digital Media Center
- ↑ Eye on the Prize