Paige St. John

American journalist

Paige St. John is an American journalist with the Los Angeles Times. Before joining the Times, St. John was at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, where she earned the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. The Pulitzer was the Herald Tribune's first, "for her examination of weaknesses in the murky property-insurance system vital to Florida homeowners, providing handy data to assess insurer reliability and stirring regulatory action."[1]

Life

St. John graduated from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in the early 1980s.[2]

She joined the LA Times Sacramento bureau in July, 2012.[3] She began her career at The Detroit News. Later, she worked for the Associated Press in Traverse City, Michigan and Charleston, West Virginia.[4] St. John went to Florida to become Gannett's state house bureau chief,[1] and then joined the Herald-Tribune in 2008.

The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to St. John for her series "Florida's Insurance Nightmare," which discussed the Florida property insurance industry. St. John spent two years investigating the state's insurance system, and her series had already been recognized with the Scripps Howard Award, National Headliner Award, and Investigative Reporters and Editors Award.[5] The 2011 Pulitzer jury said St. John, who was involved in the development of Internet applications for insurance analysis,[6] offered "handy data to assess insurer reliability" and prompted legislative reforms.[7] St. John was chosen by the 2011 Pulitzer jury over three other finalists: Walt Bogdanich, Sam Roe, and Jared S. Hopkins.[8]

In June 2019, St. John began hosting the Man in the Window podcast, which is produced by the Los Angeles Times and Wondery.[9][10] The series covers the case of the Golden State Killer, a serial rapist and murderer tied to hundreds of crimes from 1974 to 1986 across California.[11]

St. John received the 2023 Gerald Loeb Award for local reporting for her contribution to the series "Legal Weed, Broken Promises".[12]

Family

She is married and has a daughter;[1] her husband, John Wark, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist while working for the Orlando Sentinel.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c Janensch, Paul (April 20, 2011). "Great newspaper state of Florida snags another Pulitzer for exposing insurance racket". TCPalm. The E.W. Scripps Co. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  2. ^ Hawley, Chris (April 19, 2011). "SIUE graduate wins Pulitzer for investigative reporting". Belleville News-Democrat. The McClatchy Company. Retrieved April 20, 2011.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "LA Times Hires Pulitzer Winner Paige St. John - FishbowlNY". Archived from the original on 2014-02-25. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  4. ^ "Arts for Life! | Paige St. John".
  5. ^ "Florida Journalist Wins Pulitzer for Property Insurance Report". Insurance Journal. Wells Publishing, Inc. Associated Press. April 20, 2011. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  6. ^ "Details on the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Associated Press. April 18, 2011. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  7. ^ Armario, Christine (April 18, 2011). "Sarasota Herald-Tribune wins Pulitzer prize". Miami Herald. Miami Herald Media Co. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  8. ^ NPR Staff (April 18, 2011). "Winners, Finalists For The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes". National Public Radio. NPR. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  9. ^ "Wondery - Feel The Story Man in the Window". Wondery – Feel The Story. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  10. ^ "'Man in the Window': How the arrest resurrected a nightmare for victims". Los Angeles Times. 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  11. ^ Barnum, Kevin Chang (2019-07-04). "Man in the Window Gives Voice to the Golden State Killer's Victims". Podcast Review. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
  12. ^ "L.A. Times Wins Two Loeb Awards, Rivera Brooks Honored with Minard Editor Award". Los Angeles Times. September 23, 2023. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
  13. ^ Pollick, Michael (April 18, 2011). "Herald-Tribune wins Pulitzer Prize". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. HeraldTribune.com. Retrieved April 20, 2011.

External links

  • Sarasota Herald-Tribune insurance investigation
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(2015–2019)
  • 2015: Mike Hendricks, Mará Rose Williams
  • 2016: Steve Mistler, Whit Richardson
  • 2017: Eric Eyre
  • 2018: Hal Dardick, Jason Grotto, Sandhya Kambhampati
  • 2019: Cary Aspinwall, Holly K. Hacker, Allan James Vestal
(2020–2022)
  • 2020: Doris Burke, Deborah Douglas, Maya Miller, Beena Raghavendran, Wendi C. Thomas
  • 2021: Shana Daloria, Aaron Mendelson, Priska Neely, Rina Palta, Chava Sanchez
  • 2022: Angela Couloumbis, Joseph DiStefano, Craig McCoy
  • 2023: Adam Elmahrek, Kiera Feldman, Marisa Gerber, Robert J. Lopez, Paige St. John, Brian van der Brug, Ruben Vives
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