Galesburg native wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize as part of Washington Post team
A Galesburg native recently received the highest honor in American journalism.
Silvia Foster-Frau, a 2010 graduate of Galesburg High School, is a national investigative reporter with the Washington Post. She is a member of a team whose series of stories examining the rise of AR-15-style rifles and mass shootings in the United States won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
“I want to thank the people affected by the mass shootings who were quoted, and some who were not,” Foster-Frau said in a recent social media post. “They retold the most vulnerable and horrible moment of their lives in the hopes that, through us, it would make a difference.”
Remarkable speech by @SilviaElenaFF, part of our Pulitzer-winning American Icon team, speaking to the weight of the work we do and the extraordinary @washingtonpost newsroom. So proud of this staff, the stories we tell and how we tell them. pic.twitter.com/BMobT4ypZB
— Matea Gold (@mateagold) May 8, 2024
Foster-Frau has worked at the Washington Post since 2021. While in high school, she wrote for The Register-Mail in Galesburg as a student columnist.
The series also won a 2024 Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability. Foster-Frau and three Washington Post colleagues accepted that award last month at the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Read the story: Links to Silvia Foster-Frau's award-winning work with the Washington Post
The winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday from Columbia University. Named for 19th- and early 20th-century newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the awards are considered the highest honor a U.S.-based journalist or news outlet can receive.
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