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American journalist
Barbara Laker is an American journalist for the Philadelphia Daily News . She won with Wendy Ruderman the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting .[1]
She grew up in Kent, England .
She immigrated when she was 12.
She graduated from Missouri School of Journalism with a BJ in 1979.[2]
She worked for the Clearwater Sun , the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , the Dallas Times-Herald , and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer .[3]
The "Tainted Justice" series, brought about an FBI / Philadelphia Police internal affairs investigation.[4]
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"City reveals 47 arbitration decisions involving Philadelphia cops" , Philadelphia Daily News , Barbara Laker, Chris Brennan, Wendy Ruderman, December 24, 2010
"Covering 'Tainted Justice' And Winning A Pulitzer" , NPR
"Daily News Pulitzer Prize winners Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman" , WHYY , April 14, 2010
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Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time from 1953–1963 and the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting from 1964–1984
1953–1975 1976–2000
Chicago Tribune (1976)
Acel Moore & Wendell Rawls Jr. (1977)
Anthony R. Dolan (1978)
Gilbert M. Gaul & Elliot G. Jaspin (1979)
Stephen Kurkjian , Alexander B. Hawes Jr. , Nils Bruzelius , Joan Vennochi & Robert M. Porterfield (1980)
Clark Hallas & Robert B. Lowe (1981)
Paul Henderson (1982)
Loretta Tofani (1983)
Kenneth Cooper , Joan Fitz Gerald , Jonathan Kaufman , Norman Lockman , Gary McMillan , Kirk Scharfenberg & David Wessel (1984)
Lucy Morgan , Jack Reed & William K. Marimow (1985)
Jeffrey A. Marx & Michael M. York (1986)
Daniel R. Biddle , H.G. Bissinger , Fredric N. Tulsky & John Woestendiek (1987)
Dean Baquet , William C. Gaines & Ann Marie Lipinski (19)
Bill Dedman (1989)
Lou Kilzer (1990)
Joseph T. Hallinan & Susan M. Headden (1991)
Lorraine Adams & Dan Malone (1992)
Jeff Brazil & Steve Berry (1993)
Providence Journal-Bulletin (1994)
Stephanie Saul & Brian Donovan (1995)
The Orange County Register (1996)
Eric Nalder , Deborah Nelson & Alex Tizon (1997)
Gary Cohn & Will Englund (1998)
Miami Herald (1999)
Sang-Hun Choe , Charles J. Hanley & Martha Mendoza (2000)
2001–2025
David Willman (2001)
Sari Horwitz , Scott Higham & Sarah Cohen (2002)
Clifford J. Levy (2003)
Michael D. Sallah , Joe Mahr & Mitch Weiss (2004)
Nigel Jaquiss (2005)
Susan Schmidt , James V. Grimaldi & R. Jeffrey Smith (2006)
Brett Blackledge (2007)
Walt Bogdanich , Jake Hooker & Chicago Tribune (2008)
David Barstow (2009)
Barbara Laker , Wendy Ruderman & Sheri Fink (2010)
Paige St. John (2011)
Matt Apuzzo , Adam Goldman , Eileen Sullivan , Chris Hawley , Michael J. Berens & Ken Armstrong (2012)
David Barstow & Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab (2013)
Chris Hamby (2014)
Eric Lipton & The Wall Street Journal (2015)
Leonora LaPeter Anton , Anthony Cormier , Michael Braga & Esther Htusan (2016)
Eric Eyre (2017)
The Washington Post (2018)
Matt Hamilton , Harriet Ryan & Paul Pringle (2019)
Brian Rosenthal (2020)
Matt Rocheleau , Vernal Coleman , Laura Crimaldi , Evan Allen & Brendan McCarthy (2021)
Corey G. Johnson , Rebecca Woolington & Eli Murray (2022)
Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2023)