Anne Hull

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Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award (2008)

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Anne Hull (born 1961) is an American journalist and author. She was a national reporter at The Washington Post for nearly two decades. In 2008, the Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, citing the work of Hull, reporter Dana Priest and photographer Michel du Cille for "exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials".[http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2008-Public-Service "The 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Public Service"]. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-30.

Hull is the author of "Through the Groves: a Memoir",{{cite web | url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805093377/throughthegroves | title=Through the Groves }} described as a "coming of age and coming out memoir" about growing up in conservative rural central Florida where her father worked in the citrus groves.{{Cite news |last=Hiaasen |first=Carl |date=2023-06-17 |title=Coming of Age in the Sunshine State |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/books/review/through-the-groves-anne-hull.html |access-date=2023-09-14 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |title=A lost world comes alive in 'Through the Groves,' a memoir of pre-Disney Florida |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/07/12/1186778166/anne-hull-through-the-groves-review-florida-memoir |website=NPR}}{{Cite web |title=Anne Hull writes movingly of coming of age and coming out in 'Through the Groves' |url=https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/arts/books/2023/06/15/anne-hull-through-the-grovesflorida-orangeslgbtq-memoircoming-out/ |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=Tampa Bay Times |language=en}}

She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, and River Teeth.

Career

Hull started at the St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) in 1985. Her three-part series, "Metal to Bone,"{{cite web|last1=Hull|first1=Anne|title=Metal to Bone|url=https://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/metal-to-bone-this-time-a-gun-is-held-to-an-officers-head-8212-by-a-teen/2153840/|website=Tampa Bay Times}} about a police unit assigned to a public housing project in Tampa, was awarded the American Society of Newspaper Editors Non-Deadline Writing Award in 1995. In 1999, Hull followed a group of women from central Mexico to work in a North Carolina crab processing facility. The series, "Una Vida Mejor,"{{cite web|last1=Hull|first1=Anne|title=Una Vida Mejor|url=http://www.sptimes.com/News/50999/Worldandnation/_Una_Vida_Mejor.shtml|website=St. Petersburg Times}} was a 2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist in national reporting{{cite web| url = https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/anne-hull-0| title = The Pulitzer Prizes}} and feature writing.

Hull joined The Washington Post in 2000 as an enterprise reporter on the national staff. She wrote about low-wage workers in fast food and chicken processing plants, rural voters, immigration in the American South, LGBT teenagers coming out in the Bible Belt and Newark, and soldiers returning from the war in Iraq.

She is the author of "Through the Groves: A Memoir", published by Macmillan / Holt in 2023. {{cite web | url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805093377/throughthegroves | title=Through the Groves }}

Walter Reed scandal

In late 2007, Hull and fellow Post reporter Dana Priest and photographer Michel du Cille 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 grounds of Walter Reed. The stories led to public anger, resulting in the resignation of Secretary of the Army, Francis J. Harvey. Congressional investigations were led by Representative Henry Waxman, who chaired the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the House and by Senator Carl Levin on the Senate side, who chaired the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services. Republicans and Democrats jointly criticized the parties responsible for conditions.

This prompted President George W. Bush to appoint former Senate Majority Leader and 1996 presidential candidate Bob Dole and former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala to oversee the process of healthcare for injured soldiers.

The Post was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for uncovering the problems at Walter Reed.{{cite web | title=2008 Pulitzer Prizes | website=The Pulitzer Prizes | url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2008 | access-date=14 May 2025}}

Awards

In 2008, she received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism for "her closely observed narratives of people living on the margins of society in America".{{Cite web|url=https://goldfarbcenter.colby.edu/events/flagship-events/elijah-parish-lovejoy-award-for-courage-in-journalism/lovejoy-2008/|title=Lovejoy 2008 Award Recipient - Anne Hull - Goldfarb Center|accessdate=6 April 2023}}

Hull is a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism, and the ASNE Distinguished Writing Award.{{cite web | title=Dana Priest and Anne Hull | website=Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights | date=6 May 2024 | url=https://rfkhumanrights.org/person/dana-priest-and-anne-hull/ | access-date=14 May 2025}}{{cite magazine| title= Complete List of 2007 IRE Award Winners and Finalists| work=The IRE Journal |date=2008|url=https://www.ire.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2008-3.pdf | access-date=14 May 2025}}{{cite web | title=Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism | website=Nieman Foundation | date=19 April 2025 | url=https://nieman.harvard.edu/awards/worth-bingham-prize-for-investigative-journalism/ | access-date=14 May 2025}}{{cite web | url=https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/priesthull-win-worth-bingham-prize/ | title=Priest/Hull Win Worth Bingham Prize | date=30 January 2008 }} She has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist several times.

Other

Hull was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard (Class of '95). She has been a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2010) and a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University (2011). She served on the Board of Trustees of the Poynter Institute For Media Studies in St. Petersburg. She lives in Washington, D.C.

References

External links

[http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/17001/the-invisible-reporter-qa-with-anne-hull/ The Invisible Reporter: Q&A with Anne Hull], Poynter
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060908055929/http://www.nieman.harvard.edu//narrative/digest/resources/bios/hull-a.html Anne Hull Bio], Nieman Narrative Digest
[http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/anne+hull/ Articles] in The Washington Post
[https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1999/05/09/leaving-palomas/ Una Vida Mejor, A Better Life], The St. Petersburg Times, May 10, 1999
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070728073900/http://www.theauthenticvoice.org/TeachersGuide_RimOfNewWorld.html Rim Of the New World], The Washington Post
[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7733248 Reporters Who Broke Story on Conditions at Walter Reed], All Things Considered, NPR, March 6, 2007
[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/08/11/080811fa_fact_hull?currentPage=all The Strawberry Girls], The New Yorker, August 11, 2008
[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/books/review/a-place-of-our-own-june-thomas-lesbians.html How Lesbians Found One Another], The New York Times, June 18, 2024

Category:21st-century American women journalists

Category:21st-century American journalists

Category:The Washington Post people

Category:Nieman Fellows

Category:Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients

Category:Florida State University alumni

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Category:1961 births