Tony Bartelme

Bartelme was born in 1963, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father, Joe Bartelme, was an executive with NBC News until his death in 1991.{{Cite news|date=1991-09-06|title=Joe Bartelme, 61, Dies; Ex-NBC News Official|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/06/obituaries/joe-bartelme-61-dies-ex-nbc-news-official.html|access-date=2020-10-02|issn=0362-4331}} Bartelme's mother, Margaret, is a teacher. Bartelme's son, Luke, played the character "TJ" on Lifetime's drama "Army Wives" for four seasons.{{Cite web|title=Luke Bartelme|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3035860/|access-date=2020-10-02|website=IMDb}}

Bartelme began his journalism career at The Greenville (South Carolina) News-Piedmont after earning a bachelor of science degree in 1984 from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.{{Cite web|title=Writers - Tony Bartelme|url=http://showcase.casw.org/writers/tony-bartelme/|access-date=2020-10-02|website=Showcase|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Finalist Tony Bartelme Mar. 24 "A Surgeon in the Village"|url=https://susanlucas.typepad.com/bbb_author_series/2017/03/three-time-pulitzer-prize-finalist-tony-bartelme-march-24.html|access-date=2020-10-02|website=BBB Author Series}} He has been with The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, since 1990.

While with The Post and Courier, Bartelme was recognized for combining investigative reporting with magazine-style narratives on complex issues ranging from pension abuse{{Cite web|title=NLA|url=https://members.newsleaders.org/awards-2018|access-date=2020-10-02|website=members.newsleaders.org}} to toxic algae blooms.{{Cite web|last=Montgomery|first=David R.|date=2018-07-04|title=Winners: SEJ 17th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment|url=https://www.sej.org/winners-sej-17th-annual-awards-reporting-environment|access-date=2020-10-02|website=SEJ|language=en}} In 2018, judges for the Society of Environmental Journalists award for beat reporting, said his “skill is evident as he dives deep time and again to deliver deftly-crafted, enterprising features on serious topics.”{{Cite web|title=P&C reporter wins national award for stories about algae, flooding and power company abuses|url=https://www.postandcourier.com/news/p-c-reporter-wins-national-award-for-stories-about-algae-flooding-and-power-company-abuses/article_40572f64-9753-11e8-a8c4-7f0dc2e890d8.html|access-date=2020-10-02|website=Post and Courier|language=en}}

• In 2021, Columbia Journalism School awarded Bartelme its John Chancellor Award for Journalism Excellence, an honor presented to a journalist for his or her cumulative accomplishments.{{Cite web|url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/tony-bartelme-post-and-courier-senior-projects-reporter-wins-prestigious-2021-john-chancellor-award|title = Tony Bartelme, the Post and Courier Senior Projects Reporter, Wins Prestigious 2021 John Chancellor Award | Columbia Journalism School}} Judges cited a career of ground-breaking environmental and investigative stories that stretched the limits of what local newspapers offer their readers.{{Cite web|url=https://magazine.medill.northwestern.edu/2021/tony-bartelme-bsj84-2/|title=Tony Bartelme (BSJ84) – Medill Magazine }}
• In 2020, Bartelme was part of a team of reporters that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for a climate change project called Rising Waters.{{Cite news|url=https://www.postandcourier.com/news/post-and-courier-staff-named-pulitzer-prize-finalist-for-series-on-flooding/article_2307c22c-cade-11eb-984f-4f0e3e6b6b30.html|title = Post and Courier staff named Pulitzer Prize finalist for series on flooding|newspaper = Post and Courier}}
• In 2019, Bartelme won the inaugural [https://ksj.mit.edu/mcelheny-award/ Victor K. McElheny] Knight Science Journalism Award for a story about climate change and the Gulf Stream.{{Cite web|title=Gulf Stream series wins Knight Science Journalism Program's Inaugural Victor K. McElheny Award|url=https://news.mit.edu/2019/gulf-stream-series-wins-ksj-victor-mcelheny-award-science-journalism-0318|access-date=2020-10-02|website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology|language=en}}
• In 2018, Bartelme won the Gerald Loeb Award for Feature business journalism{{Cite web |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ucla-anderson-school-of-management-announces-2018-gerald-loeb-award-winners-300672056.html |title=UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2018 Gerald Loeb Award Winners |date=June 25, 2018 |website=PR Newswire |access-date=January 31, 2019}} and American Society of News Editors Deborah Howell Award for a story about the demise of the Piggly Wiggly Carolina grocery chain.
• In 2017, the American Geophysical Union awarded Bartelme its Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for "Every Other Breath," a series about climate change issues.{{Cite web|title=AGU honors journalists Rich Monastersky, Tony Bartelme and Courtney Humphries|url=https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/agu-ahj072017.php|access-date=2020-10-02|website=EurekAlert!|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Saga - Post and Courier|url=https://data.postandcourier.com/saga/plankton/longread|access-date=2020-10-02|website=data.postandcourier.com}}
• In 2017, the National Press Foundation awarded its Technology in Journalism Award for "Chasing Carbon," a story that was part of the "Every Other Breath" series.{{Cite web|title=Best of 2017: Award-Winning Journalism Worthy of Your Time|url=https://nationalpress.org/newsfeed/best-of-2017-award-winning-journalism-worthy-of-your-time/|access-date=2020-10-02|website=National Press Foundation|language=en-US}}
• In 2016, Bartelme was part of a reporting team that won a Scripps Howard Foundation award for community journalism about an investigation into police shootings in South Carolina.{{Cite web|date=2016-03-08|title=2015 Scripps Howard Award winners announced|url=https://scripps.com/foundation/news/958-2015-scripps-howard-award-winners-announced/|access-date=2020-10-02|website=Scripps|language=en}}
• In 2016, Bartelme was a member of a reporting team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news reporting category for stories about the fatal shooting of Walter Scott.{{Cite web|last=The Pulitzer Prizes|date=|title=The 2016 Pulitzer Prizes|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/los-angeles-times-staff|access-date=2020-10-02|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en}}
• In 2013, Bartelme's series about high insurance rates was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory writing and winner of the Sigma Delta Chi Award for non-deadline reporting for papers with circulations between 50,000 and 150,000.{{Cite web|last=The Pulitzer Prizes|date=|title=2013 Pulitzer Prizes Journalism|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2013|access-date=2020-10-02|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Sigma Delta Chi Awards - Society of Professional Journalists|url=https://www.spj.org/sdxa13.asp|access-date=2020-10-02|website=www.spj.org}}
• In 2011, Bartelme was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for in Feature Writing, for his series about a neurosurgeon's work to teach brain surgery in Tanzania.{{Cite web|last=The Pulitzer Prizes|date=|title=2011 Pulitzer Prizes Journalism|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2011#:~:text=Mark%20Johnson,%20Kathleen%20Gallagher,%20Gary,graphics,%20videos%20and%20other%20images.|access-date=2020-10-02|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en}}
• In 2011, Bartelme was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.{{Cite web|title=Nieman Foundation For Journalism At Harvard Announces 2011 Nieman Fellows|url=https://www.adweek.com/digital/nieman-foundation-for-journalism-at-harvard-announces-2011-nieman-fellows/|access-date=2020-10-02|language=en-US}}
• In 2009, Bartelme won the National Press Association's Stokes Award for Best Energy Writing.{{Cite web|title=Tony Bartelme|url=https://nationalpress.org/award-winner/tony-bartelme/|access-date=2020-10-02|website=National Press Foundation|language=en-US}}
• In 2008, Bartelme won the Gerald Loeb Award for Small Newspapers for a story about the effect of China's growth on local economies.N.Y. Times wins 3 Loeb Awards; Sloan gets his 7th, by Joseph Altman, Associated Press, Jun 30, 2008{{Cite web |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/1791539/2008-gerald-loeb-award-winners-announced-ucla-anderson-school-management |title=2008 Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management |date=October 28, 2011 |website=Fast Company |access-date=February 1, 2019}}
• Bartelme won the 2007 Associated Press Managing Editors award for international perspective for newspapers under 150,000 circulation.{{Cite web|title=Washington Post, Birmingham News among newspaper award winners - APME - Associated Press Media Editors|url=https://www.apme.com/page/2007APMEAwards|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802010614/https://www.apme.com/page/2007APMEAwards|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 2, 2020|access-date=2020-10-02|website=www.apme.com}} Bartelme has won more than 50 South Carolina Press Association Awards, including Journalist of the Year.{{cite web|title=Charleston.net - Special Reports - the China Effect|url=http://newsfiles.charleston.net/SpecialReports/china.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081129165903/http://newsfiles.charleston.net/SpecialReports/china.html|archivedate=2008-11-29|accessdate=2009-04-10}}{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}

Bartelme has written or co-written four books:

• A Surgeon in the Village: An American Doctor Teaches Brain Surgery in Africa, 2017, Beacon Press. Title in Canada: Send Forth the Healing Sun: The Unexpected True Story About Teaching Brain Surgery in the African Bush, 2016, HarperCollins/Canada.{{Cite web|title=Send Forth The Healing Sun - Tony Bartelme - Paperback|url=https://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443424493/send-forth-the-healing-sun/|access-date=2020-10-02|website=HarperCollins Canada|language=en-US}}
• Second Chance: The Mark Sanford Story, 2013.{{Cite web|last=Evening Post Books|date=|title=Second Chance: The Mark Sanford Story|url=https://evepostbooks.com/?product=second-chance-the-mark-sanford-story-2nd-edition|access-date=|website=}}
• The Bridge Builders and Charleston's Grand New Span, with Jessica VanEgeren, 2005.
• Into the Wind: The story of the world's longest race, with Brian Hicks, 1999.{{Cite web|last=Evening Post Books|date=|title=Into the Wind: Around Alone: The Story of The World's Longest Race|url=https://evepostbooks.com/product/wind-around-alone-story-worlds-longest-race/|access-date=|website=}}

He wrote the screenplay for Born to the Wind, a documentary narrated by Peter Fonda on the 1998-1999 Around Alone sailing race.{{Citation|title=Born to the Wind (TV Movie 1999) - IMDb|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1836756/plotsummary|language=en|access-date=2020-10-02}} The documentary won a Telly and Moscow Festival Special Award.[http://www.paladventurevideos.com/BTTW.htm] www.paladventurevideos.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518042639/http://www.paladventurevideos.com/BTTW.htm |date=2008-05-18 }}{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}

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