Pulitzer winners Hopkins and Reyes: Teamwork ‘wasn’t always easy’

Their groundbreaking alliance netted them and their news organizations a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. But that doesn’t mean they always worked together seamlessly. In this edition of Chicago Media Talks, meet Madison Hopkins and Cecilia Reyes, praised by Pulitzer judges for “a piercing examination of the city’s long history of failed building- and fire-safety code enforcement, which let scofflaw landlords commit serious violations that resulted in dozens of unnecessary deaths."

Read  The Failures Before the Fires, Pulitzer winning article by Madison Hopkins and Cecilia Reyes.