Charles Ornstein

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Charles Ornstein is an American journalist. He is currently a senior editor for ProPublica specializing in health care issues, including medical quality, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and Big Pharma. [1] [2] He is also an adjunct associate professor of journalism at Columbia University. [3] [4]

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Charles Ornstein in Detroit, Mich.

Born April 1, 1974 in Detroit, Michigan, [5] Ornstein attended Hillel Day School. [6] He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in history and psychology and 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 a past president and vice president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. [7] He was a reporter for The Dallas Morning News (where he covered health care on the business desk and worked in the Washington bureau) before joining the metro investigative projects team at the Los Angeles Times .

In 2004, Ornstein and Tracy Weber reported "The Trouble at King/Drew Hospital" in a series of articles for the Los Angeles Times. [1] The newspaper received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service "for its courageous, exhaustively researched series exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital". [8] [9] The series was also recognized by other journalism awards. [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." [9]

Previously based in Burbank, California, he lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey with his wife and three sons. Miles, Jude, and Holden. [10]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Charles Ornstein".
  2. ↑ Charles Ornstein [@charlesornstein] (25 January 2017). "ProPublica is laying out specific beats for the @realDonaldTrump @POTUS era. Here's mine:" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ↑ "Charles Ornstein | Columbia Journalism School".
  4. ↑ "Columbia University Search".
  5. ↑ |url= https://www.latimes.com/la-charles-ornstein_pulitzer-bio-story.html|access-date=08 August 2024 |work=Los Angeles Times
  6. ↑ "Celebrating 50 Fabulous Alumni". The Detroit Jewish News . 13 September 2007. p. 89. Retrieved 30 November 2019. Charles Ornstein, class of 1988, Pulitzer Prize Winner
  7. ↑ "News University".
  8. 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).
  9. 1 2 3 "Public Service". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
  10. ↑ " @charlesornstein " on Twitter
  11. ↑ Eye on the Prize
  12. ↑ "Foremother and Health Policy Hero Awards Luncheons". 7 May 2018.
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