Lisa Sharon Chedekel (November 19, 1960 – January 12, 2018) was an
American
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investigative journalist.
Life and career
Chedekel graduated from
Wesleyan University in 1982. She attended
Phillips Academy
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in her hometown,
Andover, Massachusetts.
At the ''
Hartford Courant
The ''Hartford Courant'' is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is considered to be the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States. A morning newspaper serving most of the state north of New Haven ...
'' in 1998 she was on a team that provided "clear and detailed coverage of a shooting rampage in which a state lottery worker killed four supervisors, then himself," and won the following year's
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting with that citation.
Still at the ''Courant'' in 2006, she wrote stories about military mental health care which won national awards. She and
Matthew Kauffman
Matthew Kauffman (born October 5, 1961 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American investigative journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Education
Kauffman attended Vassar College, where he obtained a bachelor of arts degree.
Career
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were finalists for the Investigative Reporting Pulitzer, citing "their in-depth reports on suicide among American soldiers in Iraq, leading to congressional and military action to address mental health problems raised in the stories."
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In 2002, she was one of a few American journalists to visit and report from Saudi Arabia. In December 2010, she co-founded the Connecticut Health Investigative Team, a non-profit investigative news service focusing on health and safety.
On January 12, 2018, Chedekel died at the age of 57 from cancer, leaving two children, Bernard and Evelyn, and her wife, Isabel Morais.]
Awards
* 2007 finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1953, under one name or another, for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series in a U.S. news publicat ...
["Investigative Reporting"]
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
* 2006 George Polk Award
* 2006 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting
The Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, given by the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California
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* 2006 Worth Bingham Prize
* 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting["Breaking News Reporting"]
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
Works
"Military Psychiatric Screening Still Lags,"
''Hartford Courant'', Matthew Kauffman, Lisa Chedekel, March 9, 2008
See also
References
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1960 births
2018 deaths
21st-century American women writers
American investigative journalists
Place of birth missing
Phillips Academy alumni
Wesleyan University alumni
People from Andover, Massachusetts
Journalists from Boston
Hartford Courant people
Boston University people
George Polk Award recipients
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting winners
American lesbian writers
LGBT people from Massachusetts