Oct 1, 2014: Charles Ornstein: ProPublica: Analysis: Government’s New Doctor Payments Website Worthy of a Recall
May 11, 2013: Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein and Jennifer LaFleur: ProPublica: Medicare Drug Program Fails to Monitor Prescribers, Putting Seniors and Disabled at Risk
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. Ornstein reported for the Times starting in 2001, in the last five years largely in partnership with Weber. Earlier, Ornstein spent five years as a reporter for the Dallas Morning News. He is a past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists and a former Kaiser Family Foundation media fellow (1999-2000).
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."
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."
