Charles Ornstein

Charles Ornstein is an American journalist, a reporter for ProPublica.[1]

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.[2] 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.[1] 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."[3][4] The series was recognized by other journalism awards, too.[1]

Another series by Ornstein and Weber, "When Caregivers Harm: California's Unwatched Nurses" in 2009, was a finalist for the Public Service Pulitzer.[1] 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."[4]

He lives in Burbank with his wife and son [5]

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