Lisa Chedekel
Lisa Sharon Chedekel was an American investigative journalist. At the Hartford Courant in 1998 she was on the team that provided "clear and detailed coverage of a shooting rampage in which a state lottery worker killed four supervisors then himself", and won next year's Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting with that citation.
Still at the Courant in 2006, she wrote stories on military mental health care which won national awards. She and Matthew Kauffman were finalists for the Investigative Reporting Pulitzer, citing "their in-depth reports on suicide among American soldiers in Iraq, leading to congressional and military action to address mental health problems raised in the stories."
In 2002, she was one of a few American journalists to visit and report from Saudi Arabia. In December 2010, she co-founded the Connecticut Health Investigative Team, a non-profit investigative news service focusing on health and safety.Personal life
Chedekel graduated from Wesleyan University in 1982. She attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, her hometown.
On January 12, 2018, Lisa Chedekel died at age 57 from cancer, leaving two children, Bernard and Evelyn, and her wife, Isabel Morais.Awards
