Top stories published by O'Brien Fellowship in November of 2016

Nov 13, 2016

How an underfunded lead poisoning surveillance system failed Flint

A lack of transparency at the state and local level led to criminal charges and civil lawsuits following findings that officials did not act quickly enough to alert residents in Flint, Michigan, that their water had…

O’Brien student interviews Milwaukee police officials about body cameras

2016–17 O’Brien Fellows announced

The J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication announced today that Pulitzer Prize…

O’Brien program assistant appears on CNN

Did Anderson Cooper just say my name? Did John Kasich interrupt him to finish answering…

O’Brien intern reports on Flint water crisis

Beginning a two-day reporting assignment in Flint, Michigan, I was in a Über…

MU grad recounts covering White House

On a wall in Ted Knap’s house, there are dozens of framed photographs of him with Lyndon B…

Two Newspapers Publish O’Brien Work

Marquette University students from the J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication have teamed with journalists from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to produce national and local reporting that begins this week with a two-part…

O’Brien Fellow Contributes to Pulitzer Prize

When a devastating mudslide pushed across the Steelhead Haven development in Darrington, Washington, killing 43 people in March 2014, award-winning reporter Hal Bernton desperately wanted to cover the aftermath of the calamity with his colleagues at…

Meet 2013–14 O’Brien Fellow Lillian Thomas

2013–14 O’Brien Fellow Lillian Thomas is assistant managing editor of special projects at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Since late 2012, her investigative team has broken dozens of stories about a federal investigation of the city of Pittsburgh that led to…