Julie Cart won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, with her colleague, Bettina Boxall, for their series of stories looking at the cost and effectiveness of combating wildfires in the western United States.
10 Facts About Julie Cart
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Julie Cart has worked for the Los Angeles Times and several other news organizations.
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Julie Cart currently covers environmental issues in the California state capitol as a writer with CalMatters.
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Julie Cart held the ninth all-time record in the discus throw in 1980, and won the women's championship at the 1976 Intermountain Conference Championships; she made the US Olympic trials.
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Julie Cart attended on an athletic scholarship and was one of the first women's conference champion's in Arizona State's track and field history, winning the 1976 Intermountain Conference Championships for the discus throw.
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Julie Cart held the university's 9th all-time discus throw record in 1980, at 52.04 meters.
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Julie Cart was inducted into the Cronkite School Alumni Hall of Fame in 1988.
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In 2003, Julie Cart joined the environmental staff, reporting on public lands and endangered species.
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Julie Cart has covered multiple topics in her LA Times reporting including Utah polygamy, the Columbine High School massacre, post-911 and the recovery of Hurricane Katrina.
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In 2015 Julie Cart joined CALmatters, a journalism organization covering California's state capitol.