Washington Post Journalist Hannah Natanson, '19, Wins Pulitzer Prize
The New York Times covered a story on former English concentrator Hannah Natanson, whose reporting on the Trump administration's efforts to significantly reduce the size of the federal workforce earned her a Pulitzer Prize. An excerpt of the article is included below:
"At 6:05 a.m. on Jan. 14, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation converged at the door of Hannah Natanson, a reporter at The Washington Post. They had a search warrant and entered her home, seizing her iPhone and other devices.
For the previous year, Ms. Natanson had reported on the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the federal work force and cut programs. The F.B.I. search was part of an investigation into a government contractor who the Justice Department said had leaked her classified information."
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