Debbie Cenziper

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Debbie Cenziper
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Florida
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  • Investigative journalist
  • nonfiction author
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Debbie Cenziper is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist and nonfiction author. As of November 2022 she writes for ProPublica and is the director of the Medill Investigative Lab at Northwestern University. She spent more than a decade as an investigative reporter at The Washington Post , and has written two nonfiction books.

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Early life and education

Cenziper grew up in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Florida, in 1992. [1]

Career

She worked as a reporter for the Miami Herald , [2] The Charlotte Observer , and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel . [3]

She won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles exposing corruption and waste in the Miami-Dade Housing Agency, which the Miami Herald published in 2006. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006 for a series of stories on breakdowns in the nation's hurricane-forecasting system. [4]

She spent more than a decade as an investigative reporter at The Washington Post .[ citation needed ] During her time there, she was one of the lead authors of "The Pandora Papers", an award-winning 2021 international investigation about the covert movement of money around the world, co-published with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. [5]

In April 2019 she was named the director of The Medill Investigative Lab Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. [6]

As of November 2022 Cenziper writes for ProPublica.[ citation needed ]

Books

She is the co-author of the nonfiction book Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality. [7] The book, published in 2016 by William Morrow, tells the story behind the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples. The book received a starred review by Booklist and was named a notable book of 2016 by The Washington Post. [8]

Her second nonfiction book, Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America, was published on November 12, 2019, by Hachette Books. [9] In a review in The Washington Post, Jonathan Kirsch wrote, "Cenziper brought her investigative skills to bear on the challenge of retrieving the hard facts, but she also possesses the gift of a storyteller....[Citizen 865 is] a highly significant work of investigation that is eye-opening and heartbreaking. She compels us to confront the crimes of the Trawniki men in a way that burns itself into both memory and history." [10]

Recognition

She is a frequent speaker at universities, national writing conferences, book clubs and festivals. She has been a guest on dozens of television and radio shows, including CNN, MSNBC and NPR’s Talk of the Nation. She and her stories at the Miami Herald were featured in a national PBS documentary on investigative reporting; her work at The Washington Post was featured in an award-winning, full-length documentary film, released nationwide in 2013.[ citation needed ]

In June 2017, she was named in a question on the game show Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebec asked contestants, "Like Bob Woodward at The Washington Post, Debbie Cenziper is this type of reporter, from the Latin for 'to track.'"[ citation needed ]

Awards

Works

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References

  1. ↑ Former Miami Herald reporter latest alum to land a Pulitzer – communigator. Jou.ufl.edu. Retrieved on 2011-02-18.
  2. ↑ The Exposé Blog: Debbie Cenziper Archives. Pbs.org. Retrieved on 2011-02-18.
  3. ↑ No Day Off Doesn`t Stop Flag-waving By Students – Sun Sentinel. Articles.sun-sentinel.com (2009-11-11). Retrieved on 2011-02-18.
  4. ↑ "Finalist: Debbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald". www.pulitzer.org.
  5. ↑ archive | Staff | washingtonpost.com. Projects.washingtonpost.com. Retrieved on 2011-02-18.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Debbie Cenziper to join Medill faculty". Northwestern University. April 2, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Love Wins - Debbie Cenziper - Hardcover".
  8. ↑ "Notable fiction in 2016". The Washington Post . Washington, D.C. November 17, 2016. ISSN   0190-8286. OCLC   1330888409.
  9. ↑ Cenziper, Debbie (March 5, 2019). Citizen 865 by Debbie Cenziper. ISBN   9780316449656.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  10. ↑ Kirsch, Jonathan (January 9, 2020). "Hunting down Nazi war criminals in the United States". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Outstanding Young Alumni Award Winners - University of Florida Alumni Association". connect.ufalumni.ufl.edu.
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