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Charles Ornstein, ProPublica

Charles Ornstein is a senior reporter for ProPublica covering health care and the pharmaceutical industry. In collaboration with Tracy Weber, Ornstein was a lead reporter on a series of articles in the Los Angeles Times titled "The Troubles at King/Drew" hospital that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for public service in 2005. His ProPublica series, with Tracy Weber, "When Caregivers Harm: California's Unwatched Nurses," was a finalist for a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

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