Kenneth R. Weiss
Kenneth R. Weiss (born May 28, 1957) is an investigative journalist for the Los Angeles Times.[1]
Weiss was born in Covina, California, and he graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1981 with a B.A. in Folklore.[2] There he was editor-in-chief for the college newspaper, The Daily Californian, during his senior year.[2]
Weiss, reporter Usha Lee McFarling, and photographer Rick Loomis of the L.A. Times shared the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2007, citing "their richly portrayed reports on the world's distressed oceans, telling the story in print and online, and stirring reaction among readers and officials."[2]
Awards
- 2006 George Polk Award
- 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting[2][3]
- 2007 Grantham Prize Winner[4]
- 2007 Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science
Selected works
- "Fish Farms Become Feedlots of the Sea", The Los Angeles Times, KENNETH R WEISS, 9 December 2002
- "Bush to Protect Island Waters ", The Los Angeles Times, June 15, 2006
- "Cruise Line Pollution Prompts Legislation", The Los Angeles Times, KENNETH R WEISS, 18 August 2003
- "The rise of slime", The New Internationalist, January 2007, Issue 397
- "Beyond 7 billion""Five Part Series on Challenges Posed by Rising World Population] The Los Angeles Times, KENNETH R WEISS, 22 July 2012
References
- ^ Los Angeles Times
- ^ a b c d "The 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Explanatory Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-03. With biographical data for all three people under the name "Biography".
- ^ "2007 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism". The New York Times. 16 April 2007.
- ^ "The Grantham Prize :: 2007 Winner". Archived from the original on 2009-05-14. Retrieved 2010-06-13.
External links
- "How Journalists Work with Ken Weiss and John Vande Wege", USCAnnenberg, November 13, 2007
- Pulitzer Winner Ken Weiss at UCSB (2007) at University of California, Santa Barbara
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Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism from 1985–1997
- Jon Franklin (1985)
- Staff of The New York Times (1986)
- Jeff Lyon & Peter Gorne (1987)
- Daniel Hertzberg & James B. Stewart (1988)
- David Hanners, William Snyder & Karen Blessen (1989)
- David A. Vise & Steve Coll (1990)
- Susan C. Faludi (1991)
- Robert S. Capers & Eric Lipton (1992)
- Mike Toner (1993)
- Ronald Kotulak (1994)
- Leon Dash & Lucian Perkins (1995)
- Laurie Garrett (1996)
- Michael Vitez, April Saul & Ron Cortes (1997)
- Paul Salopek (1998)
- Richard Read (1999)
- Eric Newhouse (2000)
- Staff of the Chicago Tribune (2001)
- Staff of The New York Times (2002)
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2003)
- Kevin Helliker & Thomas M. Burton (2004)
- Gareth Cook (2005)
- David Finkel (2006)
- Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling & Rick Loomis (2007)
- Amy Harmon (2008)
- Bettina Boxall & Julie Cart (2009)
- Michael Moss & Staff of The New York Times (2010)
- Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar & Alison Sherwood (2011)
- David Kocieniewski (2012)
- Staff of The New York Times including David Barboza, Charles Duhigg, David Kocieniewski, Steve Lohr, John Markoff, David Segal, David Streitfeld, Hiroko Tabuchi & Bill Vlasic (2013)
- Eli Saslow (2014)
- Zachary R. Mider (2015)
- T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong (2016)
- International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy & Miami Herald (2017)
- Staff of The Arizona Republic & Staff of USA Today Network (2018)
- David Barstow, Susanne Craig & Russ Buettne (2019)
- Staff of The Washington Post (2020)
- Ed Yong (2021)
- Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts (2021)
- Natalie Wolchover & Staff of Quanta Magazine (2022)
- Caitlin Dickerson (2023)