The Salt Lake Tribune won a Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for its investigative coverage of sexual assault on college campuses on April 10.
Rachel Piper, former Editor In Chief of the Daily Utah Chronicle in 2010, worked on the year-long watchdog project.
“It’s pretty much the biggest prize you can win in journalism,” said Rachel Piper, Digital News Editor for the Salt Lake Tribune.
The prize, given by Columbia University in New York City, has 14 journalism categories. Out of over 2,400 entries, 21 are awarded.
The judges who awarded the honor to the Utah paper said the decision came from “a string of vivid reports revealing the perverse, punitive and cruel treatment given to sexual-assault victims at Brigham Young University, one of Utah’s most powerful institutions.