Wendy Ruderman (born in 1969 on Long Island, N.Y.) is an American

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for the '' Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News''. She won with

Barbara Laker Barbara Laker is an American journalist for the ''Philadelphia Daily News''. She won with Wendy Ruderman the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Life She grew up in Kent, England Kent is a county in South East England and one o ...

the 2010

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. Ruderman, along with ''Inquirer'' colleagues Barbara Laker and Dylan Purcell, was named a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer for local reporting for “Toxic City: Sick Schools,” which examined how environmental hazards in Philadelphia schools deprive children of healthy spaces to learn and grow.

Life

Ruderman was raised in

Cherry Hill, New Jersey Cherry Hill is a township within Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the township had a population of 74,553, which reflected an increase of 3,508 (+4.94%) from the 71,045 counted in the 2010 census.

and graduated from

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, now McDaniel College, with a BA in communications in 1991. She was editor of ''The Williamstown Plain Dealer''. In 1993, she worked in public relations at

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and WHYY-FM. She graduated from

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with an MS in 1997. She worked in the statehouse bureau of ''

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,''

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and ''

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''. She was a staff writer for ''

The Philadelphia Inquirer ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper's circulation is the largest in both the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley metropolitan region of Southeastern Pennsy ...

'', beginning in December 2002, before joining the ''

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'' in 2007. She and her ''Daily News'' colleague, Barbara Laker, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for their work exposing a rogue narcotics squad with the Philadelphia Police Department. The "Tainted Justice" series, brought about an FBI / Philadelphia Police internal affairs investigation. Ruderman left the ''Daily News'' for ''

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'' in 2012 and returned to the ''Daily News'' in August 2013. She currently works on the Investigations Team at ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. She was named a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for her work exposing toxins in Philadelphia schools. Ruderman serves on the Ethics Advisory Council as part of the Ethics Program at Villanova's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Works

*'' Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love'', HarperCollins, 2014, *The book has been optioned by a production company that is working on turning the story into a limited TV series. The New York Times Book Review section singled out “BUSTED: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love” as a true crime book that is “a personable and fast-reading ride.”

References

External links

Journalist's Twitter
*http://fora.tv/speaker/11563/Wendy_Ruderman {{DEFAULTSORT:Ruderman, Wendy 1969 births Living people American women journalists Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni People from Cherry Hill, New Jersey Western Maryland College alumni Writers from New Jersey Writers from New York (state) 21st-century American women