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11 Facts About Laura Sullivan

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Laura Sullivan was born on about 1974 and is a correspondent and investigative reporter for National Public Radio.

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Laura Sullivan is an on-air correspondent for the PBS show Frontline.

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Laura Sullivan is one of NPR's most decorated journalists, with three Peabody Awards, three Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Awards, and more than a dozen other prestigious national awards.

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Laura Sullivan graduated from Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco, California, and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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Laura Sullivan wrote about the project, which won a special citation from Investigative Reporters and Editors, in an essay for the Sunday June 27,1999 edition of the Baltimore Sun.

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In 2007, Laura Sullivan won the 2007 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize.

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In 2011, Sullivan produced a series on the state of foster care for Native American children focusing largely on alleged wrongdoing in the state of South Dakota and garnering her a third Peabody and her second Robert F Kennedy award for investigative reporting among other awards.

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Also in 2011, Laura Sullivan won her second commendation from Investigative Reporters and Editors for her two-part series examining the origin of the Arizona SB 1070 immigration law.

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In May 2016, Laura Sullivan collaborated with the PBS series Frontline as a correspondent for an hour long documentary examining the profit-driven nature of the insurance business after disasters.

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Laura Sullivan continued to collaborate with Frontline as a correspondent on five more films, Poverty, Politics and Profit, which examined the billions spent housing the poor, and Blackout in Puerto Rico, which investigated the federal response, Wall Street and years of neglect on the island in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

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In 2022, Laura Sullivan won her third duPont award for her podcast Waste Land and series airing on Planet Money and NPR in partnership with Frontline which investigated "How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled" unearthing internal records from the oil industry.