Cecilia Reyes (journalist)
Cecilia Reyes | |
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| Born | |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | Insider Inc. |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize in 2022 |
Cecilia Reyes is a senior reporter at Insider Inc. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2022.[1]
Biography
[edit]Reyes was born and raised in Mexico City and graduated from Columbia University in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in computer science.[2] At Columbia, she wrote for Columbia Daily Spectator, where she broke the Nutellagate scandal surrounding the alleged student theft of Nutella from Columbia's dining halls, costing the university up to 100 pounds of Nutella a day and $5,000 per week.[3][4][5] She was a Google Journalism and News Apps fellow at ProPublica and worked at The Boston Globe and New York Daily News as an intern.[6][7]
Reyes joined Chicago Tribune in 2016 as a bilingual reporter on the paper's investigative team. She led a two-year investigation called "The Failures Before the Fires" with Madison Hopkins of the Better Government Association, which looked into fatal fires that exposed flaws in Chicago's building code enforcement, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2022.[8]
Reyes joined Insider Inc. in July 2022 as a senior reporter for the investigations team.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Chicago Tribune and BGA win Pulitzer Prize for local reporting". Chicago Tribune. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "Alumni in the News: June 6, 2022". Columbia College Today. 2022-06-06. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "Columbia Daily Spectator". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "Columbia University Denies That Its Students Are Pilfering Massive Quantities Of Nutella". finance.yahoo.com. 7 March 2013. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "Nutella in Ferris Booth costs Dining $5,000 per week, in part due to dining hall thievery - Columbia Spectator". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "Cecilia Reyes". ProPublica. 12 January 2016. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "Google News Initiative Training Center". Google News Initiative Training Center. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "The Failures Before the Fires: Read the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation". Chicago Tribune. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "Cecilia Reyes on Twitter: "It's official! I am very excited to join ..." Twitter. Retrieved 2022-07-13.