Awards & Winners

Sara Ganim

Profession Journalist
Sara Elizabeth Ganim is an American journalist, now a correspondent for CNN. Previously she was a reporter for the The Patriot-News, a daily newspaper serving the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania metropolitan area. There she broke the story of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal that featured Jerry Sandusky and the Second Mile charity. For the Sandusky/Penn State coverage, "Ganim and members of The Patriot-News Staff" won a number of national awards including the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting The award cited "courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky." She was 24 years old.

Awards by Sara Ganim

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sara Ganim.

2012


Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
Honored for : The Patriot-News
(For courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky.)

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
For courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky.