Lisa Chedekel
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. She was an investigative journalist, for the Hartford Courant[1] 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, in 1982.[2] She attended Phillips Academy in Andover, her hometown.
Awards
- 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting finalist
- 2006 George Polk Award
- 2006 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting
- 2006 Worth Bingham Prize
- 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Works
- "Military Psychiatric Screening Still Lags," Hartford Courant, Matthew Kauffman, Lisa Chedekel, March 9, 2008