Anne Hull

Anne Hull (born June 8, 1961) is an American journalist and writer. She was a national correspondent for the Washington Post for nearly two decades, writing about immigration, gay youth in the Bible Belt and U.S. soldiers coming home from the war in Iraq. Her reporting on the mistreatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with fellow Post reporter Dana Priest and photographer Michel duCille brought wide-sweeping national reform. For this work, the Post was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Anne Hull
BornFlorida 
Awards

Career

Hull started as a feature writer at St. Petersburg Times in 1986. After a Tampa police officer was assaulted with a gun in a Tampa public housing project, Hull spent months in the reporting on the relationship between the police squad assigned to patrol the community and the residents who lived there. The story was told in a three-part series called "Metal to Bone"[1] and received the American Society of Newspaper Editors Non-Deadline Writing Award in 1995. In 2000, Hull followed a group of women from Mexico to work in a North Carolina crab processing facility. The series, "Una Vida Mejor,"[2] was a 2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist in national reporting [3] and feature writing. [4]

Hull joined The Washington Post in 2000 as a national reporter. She wrote about immigration, Hurricane Katrina, gay youth, marginalized Americans and soldiers coming from Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2007, Hull and Post colleagues Dana Priest and Michel duCille reported on conditions for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, for which the Post was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University from 1994 to 1995. She was a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton University. In 2011, she was a Berlin fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2011. She served on the board of trustees for the Poynter Institute For Media Studies in St. Petersburg. She has written for The New Yorker magazine.

Walter Reed scandal

In late 2007, Hull and Priest went behind the gates at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to investigate the living conditions of wounded soldiers from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They found mold, rats and the neglect of outpatient soldiers who were stuck in bureaucratic limbo on the ground of Walter Reed. The stories sparked outrage, resulting in the resignation of Secretary of the Army, Francis J. Harvey. Congressional investigations were led by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), who chaired the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the House and by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), on the Senate side, who chaired the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services. Republicans and Democrats joined hands in criticizing the respective parties responsible for the conditions there. This prompted President George W. Bush to appoint former Senate Majority Leader and 1996 Presidential Candidate Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS) and former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala to oversee the process of healthcare for wounded soldiers.

The Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2008, citing Hull, Priest and duCille for "exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials."

References
  1. Hull, Anne. "Metal to Bone". Tampa Bay Times. Tampa Bay Times.
  2. Hull, Anne. "Una Vida Mejor". St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg Times.
  3. https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/anne-hull-0
  4. https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/anne-hull-0
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