Anne Hull

Anne Hull is a national reporter for the Washington Post. She has written about race, class, immigration, gay youth and other social policy issues. In 2007, Hull and colleague Dana Priest went behind the gates at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to investigate living conditions of wounded soldiers from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2008, the Washington Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, citing the work of reporters Hull, Priest and photographer Michel du Cille for "exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials."[2][3]

Career

Hull started in the newsroom of the St. Petersburg Times in Florida. As a reporter for the Times, she wrote "Metal to Bone," a series about the attempted murder of a Tampa police officer, and "Una Vida Mejor," a series about a group of women from rural Mexico who spend a season of labor in crab processing plant in North Carolina. Hull left the Times in 2000 to join the national staff of the Washington Post. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1995. She has written for The New Yorker magazine. She was a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. She was a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton University and serves on the board of trustees at the Poynter Institute For Media Studies in St. Petersburg. A Florida native, Hull attended Florida State University.

Walter Reed scandal

On February 18, 2007, Post reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull exposed degrading conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for outpatient veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The stories caused an uproar across the United States and resulted in the resignation of Secretary of the Army, Francis J. Harvey.[15] The Post exposed the existence of mold, mice and rust in outpatient facilities and showed the deteriorating conditions in facilities for wounded soldiers and veterans. This resulted in severe investigations by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), who chaired the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the House and by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), on the Senate side, who chaired the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services. Republicans and Democrats joined hands in criticizing the respective parties responsible for the conditions there. This prompted President George W. Bush to appoint former Senate Majority Leader and 1996 Presidential Candidate Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS) and former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala to oversee the process of healthcare for wounded soldiers.

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