Investigative Reporting and the Pulitzer Prize

Two alumni of The University of Arizona’s journalism program who won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in April met with classes in the School of Journalism and give a public lecture on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009.

Paul Giblin, a 1988 graduate of the UA School of Journalism, and Ryan Gabrielson, who took classes in the school and wrote for the Arizona Daily Wildcat, discussed “Investigative Reporting and the Pulitzer Prize” on Oct. 8, 2009. Giblin and Gabrielson wrote their award-winning five-part series on slow response times and dropping arrest rates in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Ultimately the project, “Reasonable Doubt,” unearthed ways in which the MCSO's intense focus on immigration resulted in the faltering enforcement of other crimes.