Tracy Weber in

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an American

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, a reporter for

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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

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with a B.A. and M.A. in Journalism in 1989. She was a reporter for the ''

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'' and the ''

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''. In 2004, Weber and

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reported "The Trouble at King/Drew Hospital" in a series of articles for the ''Los Angeles Times''. The newspaper received the

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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service "for its courageous, exhaustively researched series exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital"."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). The series was also recognized by other journalism awards. Another series by Ornstein and Weber, "When Caregivers Harm: California's Unwatched Nurses" in 2009, was a finalist for the Public Service Pulitzer. 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." Weber is married, with two children.

Awards

* 2000 Pan American Health Organization Award * 2005

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for Public Service (awarded to the ''Los Angeles Times'') * 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award * 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service finalist"Public Service"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-03. * 2014 Health Policy Hero Award from National Center for Health Research

References

External links

C-SPAN ''Q&A'' interview with Weber and Charles Ornstein about "The Troubles at King/Drew", July 17, 2005
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weber, Tracy American women journalists 1963 births People from La Grange, Illinois UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alumni Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Los Angeles Times people 21st-century American women