Lisa Chedekel is an award-winning investigative journalist. In 1999 she was on a team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting

The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting is a Pulitzer Prize awarded for a distinguished example of breaking news, local reporting on news of the moment...

. She was an investigative journalist, for the Hartford Courant whose stories on military mental health care won a number of national awards, including a 2007 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2002, she was one of a few American journalists to visit and report from Saudi Arabia. She continues to write for media publications in the New England area. In December 2010, she co-founded the Connecticut Health Investigative Team (www.c-hit.org), a non-profit investigative news service focusing on health and safety.

She graduated from Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

, in 1982. She attended Phillips Academy in Andover, her hometown.

Awards

• 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
  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 print journalism...
  
   finalist
• 2006 George Polk Award
• 2006 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting
• 2006 Worth Bingham Prize
  Worth Bingham Prize
  The Worth Bingham Prize, also referred to as the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting, is an annual journalism award which honors: "newspaper or magazine investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public interest is being ill-served."- About the Prize :The...
  
  
• 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
  Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
  The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting is a Pulitzer Prize awarded for a distinguished example of breaking news, local reporting on news of the moment...
  
  

Works

• "Military Psychiatric Screening Still Lags," Hartford Courant, Matthew Kauffman, Lisa Chedekel, March 9, 2008

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