Stephanie Saul
OccupationJournalist
EducationB.A. in Journalism
Alma materUniversity of Mississippi
Years active1975–
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
1995
SpouseWalt Bogdanich

Stephanie Saul is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist known for her work at Newsday and The New York Times.

Early life

Saul grew up in New Albany, Mississippi.[1][2][3] In middle school, she wrote the "Snoop" column for the school newspaper.[3] In high school, she was the editor for the school's newspaper, and graduated in 1972 as part of the first fully desegregated class in New Albany.[3]

Saul entered the University of Mississippi in 1972 intending to pursue a medical career after graduation, which she saw as a better career opportunity than journalism.[3] She took journalism classes along with her pre-med studies and served on the staff of the yearbook and the school newspaper, the Daily Mississippian.[1][3] In 1975, she graduated with a B.A. in Journalism and membership in the Phi Kappa Phi honors society.[1][3]

Career

Saul began her journalism career working for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, covering the state government and the state legislature.[1] In 1980, Saul, fellow reporter Patrick Larking, and photographers Laura Lynn Fistler and Tom Hayes earned The Clarion-Ledger the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association for their feature article on jail conditions in Mississippi.[4] In 1981, Saul and W. Stevens Ricks received the George Polk Award for Regional Reporting for their article "Mississippi Gulf Coast: Wide Open and Wicked."[5]

While working for The Plain Dealer, Saul, Mary Anne Sharkey, and W. Steve Ricks wrote a multi-part series in 1985 titled "A Law Unto Himself" that exposed the corrupt practices of Ohio Supreme Court Justice Frank Celebrezze.[6][7] Fallout from the series led to his electoral defeat in 1986.[6]

Saul joined Newsday in 1984[2][8] and was the paper's national reporter from 1994 to 2000.[3] Together with Brian Donovan, she earned the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting "[for] their stories that revealed disability pension abuses by local police."[8] Their investigation found a number of retired police officers in the state of New York receiving millions in disability payments for minor injuries.[9]

Saul moved to The New York Times in 2005.[2] Her article on the Deepwater Horizon disaster, co-authored with David Barstow and David Rohde,[10] formed the basis for the 2016 film of the same name.[11]

Personal life

Saul and her husband, fellow Times reporter Walt Bogdanich, have two sons.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Stephanie Saul". Ole Miss Alumni Association. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "My Life As: Stephanie Saul and Walt Bogdanich". Stony Brook University School of Journalism. April 14, 2010. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Bennett, Taylor (September 16, 2014). "Stephanie Saul". Meek School Alumni Magazine. Vol. 2014–2015, no. 2. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  4. ^ "Silver Gavel Award Winners – 1980s" (PDF). American Bar Association. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  5. ^ "Four staff members of the Times to get George Awards". The New York Times. March 1, 1982. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  6. ^ a b Davis, Dave (July 31, 2018). "Introduction". In Davis, Dave; Mazzolini, Joan (eds.). Plain Dealing: Cleveland Journalists Tell Their Stories. MSL Academic Endeavors. Retrieved January 23, 2019. ((cite book)): |website= ignored (help)
  7. ^ Sharkey, Mary Anne (July 31, 2018). "15. The ladies of the press". In Davis, Dave; Mazzolini, Joan (eds.). Plain Dealing: Cleveland Journalists Tell Their Stories. MSL Academic Endeavors. Retrieved January 23, 2019. ((cite book)): |website= ignored (help)
  8. ^ a b c "The 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Investigative Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes.
  9. ^ Jalawan, Hanna (October 22, 2013). "10 Questions With 2013 Ole Miss Hall Of Famer Stephanie Saul". hottytoddy.com. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  10. ^ Barstow, David; Rohde, David; Saul, Stephanie (December 25, 2010). "Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
  11. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (March 8, 2011). "Summit, Participant And Imagenation Target Oil Rig Tragedy". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 29, 2019.

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