Stephanie Saul

Stephanie Saul is an American journalist. She won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for her work at Newsday. She moved to The New York Times in 2005.

Early life and education Saul grew up in the city of New Albany, Mississippi, United States. In 1981, Saul and W. Stevens Ricks received the George Polk Award for Regional Reporting for their article "Mississippi Gulf Coast: Wide Open and Wicked."

While working for The Plain Dealer, Saul, Mary Anne Sharkey, and W. Steve Ricks wrote a multi-part series in 1985 titled "A Law Unto Himself" that exposed the corrupt practices of Ohio Supreme Court Justice Frank Celebrezze. Fallout from the series led to his electoral defeat in 1986.

Saul joined Newsday in 1984 and was the paper's national reporter from 1994 to 2000. Together with Brian Donovan, she earned the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting "[for] their stories that revealed disability pension abuses by local police."

Saul moved to The New York Times in 2005. formed the basis for the 2016 film of the same name.

Personal life Saul and her husband, fellow Times reporter Walt Bogdanich, have two sons.