Julie Cart

Julie Cart, born in Louisiana, is an American journalist. She 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. At the same time, she was writing news briefs as an unpaid student for her local paper. She attended on an athletic scholarship Cart held the university's 9th all-time discus throw record in 1980, at 52.04 meters. Cart was inducted into the Cronkite School Alumni Hall of Fame in 1988.

Career Following her time in high school as a mainly unpaid reporter, Cart took on the role of "copy kid" at The Arizona Republic,

Eventually, she left the sports department to become the bureau chief with the Times National staff in Denver, Colorado.

Throughout her career at the LA Times, Cart has focused on investigations and special projects. 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. The series of stories are listed below.

"Big Burn: Out of control?" Los Angeles Times, Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart, July 27, 2008. "Big Burn: Just for show?" Los Angeles Times, Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart, July 29, 2008. "A politician gets his way," Los Angeles Times, Julie Cart, July 29, 2008. "Big Burn: In harms way," Los Angeles Times, Bettina Boxall, July 31, 2008. "Big Burn: Small trees, large threat," Los Angeles Times, Bettina Boxall, July 31, 2008. "Big Burn:Beige plague," Los Angeles Times, Bettina Boxall, August 2, 2008. "Big Burn: On their own," Los Angeles Times, Julie Cart, August 3, 2008.

In 2015 Cart joined CALmatters, a journalism organization covering California's state capitol. She covers the environment beat.

Awards

1983 Third place for Investigative Reporting, from the Associated Press Sports Editors award 1984 First place for Best Sports Story and Best News Story from the UPI-California Nevada Association 1990 Honorable mention for Enterprise Reporting and two years later fifth place for Enterprise Reporting 2006 Honorable mention from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism and third place for Outstanding Explanatory Reporting for "Writing on the Wall," from the Society of Environmental Journalists. 2018 Recipient of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award in recognition of her environmental coverage