Anne Hull

Anne Hull is an American journalist, on the national staff of the Washington Post. She won a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Life

Hull has written about race, class, immigration, gay youth, gentrification and the economy for the Washington Post. In 2007, Hull and Post colleague Dana Priest investigated the military's care of wounded soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan; their reporting exposed the harsh living conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Hull was born in Florida and worked as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times. She attended Florida State University. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1995.

She has written for The New Yorker magazine. She is on the Board of Trustees at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg. In 2010, she was the Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She was a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton University.

Awards

The Walter Reed stories were awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, and the 2007 Investigative Reporters and Editors Grand Prize Award.

Hull has received the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award. In 2008 she was the recipient of the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award from Colby College.

External links

• The Invisible Reporter: Q&A with Anne Hull, Poynter
• Anne Hull Bio, Nieman Narrative Digest
• Articles at washingtonpost.com, The Washington Post
• Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility, Washington Post, February 18, 2007
• In the Bible Belt, Acceptance is Hard Won, Washington Post, September 26, 2004
• Una Vida Mejor, A Better Life, The St. Petersburg Times, May 10, 1999
• Rim Of the New World The Washington Post
• NPR's All Things Considered NPR, March 6, 2007
• The Strawberry Girls, The New Yorker, August 11, 2008