Awards & Winners

Michael J. Berens

Michael J. Berens is a journalist.

Awards by Michael J. Berens

Check all the awards nominated and won by Michael J. Berens.

2012


Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
(For their investigation of how a little known governmental body in Washington State moved vulnerable patients from safer pain-control medication to methadone, a cheaper but more dangerous drug, coverage that prompted statewide health warnings.)

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
For their investigation of how a little known governmental body in Washington State moved vulnerable patients from safer pain-control medication to methadone, a cheaper but more dangerous drug, coverage that prompted statewide health warnings.

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
For their probe of sexual misconduct by health-care professionals that included creation of an extensive online database of offenders and caused a tightening of state regulation.

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
[Beat Reporting] For a series revealing inequities in the county municipal court system, including the widespread jailing of individuals too poor to pay fines for minor offenses and the release of other, more serious offenders who were able to pay.