Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror and Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublica

Dave Altimari does in-depth investigative reporting for The Connecticut Mirror. His work focuses on government accountability, including financial oversight, abuse of power, corruption, safety monitoring and compliance with law. Before joining CT Mirror, Altimari spent 23 years at the Hartford Courant breaking some of the state’s biggest, most impactful investigative stories.
 

Ginny Monk is The Connecticut Mirror’s children’s issues and housing reporter. She covers a variety of topics ranging from child welfare to affordable housing and zoning. Ginny grew up in Arkansas and graduated from the University of Arkansas' Lemke School of Journalism in 2017. She began her career at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, where she covered housing, homelessness and juvenile justice on the investigations team. Along the way, Ginny was awarded a 2019 Data Fellowship and 2022 National Fellowship through the Annenberg Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California.
 

Sophie Chou was a data reporter at ProPublica. She used statistics and data science to investigate stories. Before coming to ProPublica, she was a data journalist at Public Radio International and a Google News fellow at the Pew Research Center, where she was a primary researcher on a report that used Google search data to measure the impact of media coverage of the Flint water crisis. Sophie earned her master’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she researched how political news spread on Twitter during the 2016 elections, and completed an undergraduate degree in computer science at Columbia University.
 

Haru Coryne was a data reporter for ProPublica, based in Chicago. She used a combination of statistical methods, computer software and document-based research to find stories in large troves of information. She is especially interested in housing, business and economic development.