Laura Sullivan

[[[File:LSullivan.jpg]]http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4624985 Laura Sullivan] has been on NPR's National Desk since December of 2004. During her tenure, she's covered crime and punishment issues for Morning Edition, All Things Considered, [1] and other NPR programs.

Sullivan's 2007 news series investigating assault of Native American women received several honors, including the DART Award for Excellence in coverage of Trauma for outstanding reporting, an RTNDA Edward R Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting and the RTNDA Edward R Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting. The series also brought her a second Gracie Award for American Women in Radio and Television. The first was for her 2006 series "Life in Solitary Confinement which also won the 2007 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize.

Before coming to NPR, Sullivan was the Washington correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, where she covered the Justice Department, the FBI, and terrorism. In 1996, Sullivan and two other Northwestern University students completed a project that freed four men, including two death-row inmates, who had been wrongfully convicted of an 18-year-old murder on the south side of Chicago. The case led to a review of Illinois' death row and a moratorium on capitol punishment in the state. The project won a special citation from Investigative Reporters and Editors and numerous other awards.