The Pulitzer Prizes

The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart

Bettina Boxall
Staff Writer
Metro Section
Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times; staff writer, Metro 1992-present, Cover natural resources and environmental issues in California and the West. Previous assignments include state roving position, gay rights issues and AIDS.
1987-92: Southeast/Long Beach bureau, covered regional news and Long Beach City government.
The Record (Hackensack, NJ); 1982-87, Staff writer
Covered regional environmental issues, Passaic County criminal and civil courts and municipal news.
The Bennington (VT) Banner; 1978-82, staff writer
Covered the Vermont Legislature and regional environmental issues. Photographer.
The San Marcos (Texas) Daily Record; 1976-77, staff photographer

Julie Cart
Reporter
Metro Section
Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times; Reporter, Metro section, Los Angeles 2002-present, national correspondent, Denver bureau chief, 1998-2002, sports writer, 1983-97
Pasadena Star News; Freelance reporter, 1982
United Press International; General assignment reporter, Metro section, 1978-1980

Arizona State University, B.S. Journalism.
Caribbean Institute of Mass Communications at University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, Postgraduate Diploma

Society for Environmental Journalists, Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, second place, 2005
John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, honorable mention, 2006
Associated Press Sports Editors award, investigative reporting, third place, 1983; enterprise reporting, honorable mention, 1990; enterprise reporting, fifth place, 1992; enterprise reporting, second place, 1995
Women's Sports Foundation Award, 1993
Greater Los Angeles Press Club, best sports story, 1987
Greater Los Angeles Press Club, best news story, 1984
UPI-California Nevada Assn, best sports story, 1984