Anne Hull

Anne Hull is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.

Anne Hull
BornFlorida 
Awards

Career

Hull started at the St. Petersburg Times in 1986. Her series "Metal to Bone"[1] depicted a police squad in assigned to a Tampa housing project. She later followed a group of women from Mexico to work in a North Carolina crab processing facility. The series, "Una Vida Mejor,"[2] was a 2000 Pulitzer finalist.

Hull joined The Washington Post in 2000 as a national reporter. She wrote about immigration, Hurricane Katrina, gay youth, voters and soldiers coming from Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2007, Hull and Post colleagues Dana Priest and Michel duCille reported on conditions for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, for which the Post was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University from 1994 to 1995. She was a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton University. In 2011, she was a Berlin fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2011. She served on the board of trustees for the Poynter Institute For Media Studies in St. Petersburg. She has written for The New Yorker magazine.

Walter Reed scandal

In late 2007, Hull and Priest went behind the gates at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to investigate the living conditions of wounded soldiers from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They found mold, rats and the neglect of outpatient soldiers who were stuck in bureaucratic limbo on the ground of Walter Reed. The stories sparked outrage, resulting in the resignation of Secretary of the Army, Francis J. Harvey. Congressional investigations were led by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), who chaired the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the House and by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), on the Senate side, who chaired the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services. Republicans and Democrats joined hands in criticizing the respective parties responsible for the conditions there. This prompted President George W. Bush to appoint former Senate Majority Leader and 1996 Presidential Candidate Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS) and former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala to oversee the process of healthcare for wounded soldiers.

The Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2008, citing Hull, Priest and duCille for "exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials."

References
  1. Hull, Anne. "Metal to Bone". Tampa Bay Times. Tampa Bay Times.
  2. Hull, Anne. "Una Vida Mejor". St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg Times.
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