Tracy Weber in

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an American

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, a reporter for ProPublica. 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 The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

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

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'' and the '' Los Angeles Times''. In 2004, Weber and

Charles Ornstein Charles Ornstein is an American journalist. He is currently a senior editor for ProPublica specializing in health care issues, including medical quality, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and Pharmaceutical lobby, Big Pharma. He is al ...

reported "The Trouble at

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" in a series of articles for the ''Los Angeles Times''. The newspaper received the

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"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

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* 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service finalist"Public Service"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-03. * 2014 Health Policy Hero Award from

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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