Tracy Weber (journalist)

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Tracy Weber
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Born (1963-05-12) May 12, 1963 (age 61)
U.S.
Alma materUC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
OccupationJournalist

Tracy Weber in La Grange, Illinois an American journalist, a reporter for ProPublica. [1]

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Tracy was one of the country's top track runners as a high school student. She recorded a 4:44.7 mile while competing for the Cindergals Running Club (San Jose) and Lynbrook High School in California.

She graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. and M.A. in Journalism in 1989. She was a reporter for the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Times . [2]

In 2004, Weber and Charles Ornstein 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". [3] [4] 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." [4] Weber is married, with two children.

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  2. "Tracy Weber". Los Angeles Times . 4 April 2005.
  3. 1 2 "The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Public Service". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-03. With reprints of 20 works (L.A. Times articles, 18 published during December 2004).
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