Anne Hull

Anne Hull (born 1961) is an American journalist and author. She was a national reporter at The Washington Post for nearly two decades. In 2008, the Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, citing the work of Hull, reporter Dana Priest and photographer Michel du Cille for "exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials".

Hull is the author of "Through the Groves: a Memoir", described as a "coming of age and coming out memoir" about growing up in conservative rural central Florida where her father worked in the citrus groves.

She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, and River Teeth.

Career Hull started at the St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) in 1985. Her three-part series, "Metal to Bone," about a police unit assigned to a public housing project in Tampa, was awarded the American Society of Newspaper Editors Non-Deadline Writing Award in 1995. In 1999, Hull followed a group of women from central Mexico to work in a North Carolina crab processing facility. The series, "Una Vida Mejor," was a 2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist in national reporting and feature writing.

Awards In 2008, she received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism for "her closely observed narratives of people living on the margins of society in America".

Hull is a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism, and the ASNE Distinguished Writing Award. She has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist several times.

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Hull was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard (Class of '95). She has been a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2010) and a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University (2011). She served on the Board of Trustees of the Poynter Institute For Media Studies in St. Petersburg. She lives in Washington, D.C.