Eight IU alumni were part of The Washington Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service this week for its coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
More than 100 journalists contributed to the Post’s coverage, including:
- Matt Callahan, BAJ’13, Washington Post deputy design director
- Jessica Contrera, BAJ’14, Washington Post reporter
- Matt McClain, BAJ’98, Washington Post photojournalist
- Katie Mettler, BAJ’14, Washington Post reporter
- Caitlin O’Hara, BAJ’14, freelance photojournalist
- Samantha Schmidt, BAJ’16, Washington Post reporter (now Bogotá, Colombia, bureau chief)
- Peter Stevenson, BGS’12, Washington Post senior video producer
- Nick Trombola, BAJ’18, American University master’s student contributing to the Post
Alumnus John Chase, BAJ’92, served as an editor on another Pulitzer-winning story. Reporters Madison Hopkins and Cecilia Reyes won the Prize for local reporting for a partnership investigation by the Better Government Association and the Chicago Tribune that exposed the failure of Chicago city officials to keep tenants safe from fatal fires in residential buildings. Chase was one of two staffers primarily editing the investigation.