Charles Ornstein

Charles Ornstein is an American journalist, a reporter for ProPublica.
Ornstein is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he was editor of the college newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian. In 1999-2000, he was a Media Fellow with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. He is vice president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. He was a reporter for the Washington bureau of The Dallas Morning News, and then the Los Angeles Times.
With the Times in 2004, Ornstein and Tracy Weber covered "the Trouble at King/Drew" hospital in a series of articles. They shared the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service citing "courageous, exhaustively researched series exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital." The series was recognized by other journalism awards, too.
Another series by Ornstein and Weber, "When Caregivers Harm: California's Unwatched Nurses" in 2009, was a finalist for the Public Service Pulitzer. The citation recognized LA Times and ProPublica for "their exposure of gaps in California’s oversight of dangerous and incompetent nurses, blending investigative scrutiny and multimedia storytelling to produce corrective changes."
He lives in Burbank with his wife and son

• 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
• 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
• 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service finalist

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• Eye on the Prize
• "Public Service". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-04.