Tracy Weber

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

This article is about a journalist. For the singer, see Tracy Weber (singer).

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.

Awards

References
  1. https://www.propublica.org/site/author/tracy_weber
  2. https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-tracy-weber_pulitzer-bio,1,5079048.story
  3. "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).
  4. "Public Service". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-03.
  5. Eye on the Prize
  6. http://www.center4research.org/foremother-health-policy-hero-awards/#13
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