Paul Pringle

Paul Pringle is an investigative journalist for the Los Angeles Times.^[1]

Biography

Pringle was born in 1956. He earned a B.A. from Cal State Northridge in 1978, majoring in political science and journalism, and the next year received a master's degree in journalism from Penn State, where he was a columnist for The Daily Collegian.

Before working at the Los Angeles Times, Pringle worked as a stringer for The Dallas Morning News and The Tampa Tribune, teaching journalism part-time at his alma mater Cal State Northridge during that time. From 1998 through 2001, he served at The Dallas Morning News' West Coast Bureau Chief, and he was worked at the Los Angeles Times since 2001.

Career

Pringle is an investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He has covered stories that include the 2004 California wildfires, exposing corruption in the Service Employees International Union, misspending in Los Angeles' community colleges, corruption in Bell, California, abuses by the Coliseum Commission, and the crimes and drug use by former Keck School of Medicine Dean Carmen Puliafito and a subsequent lack of response by the Pasadena Police Department.^[2]

Awards

• 2008 George Polk Award^[3][4]
• 2008 Distinguished Journalist, by the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists^[5]
• 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting Finalist^[6]
• 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service^[2]
• 2012 recipient of Harvard University's Worth Bingham Prize

References

External links

• Journalist's Twitter