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Tracy Weber, in collaboration with Charles Ornstein, was a lead reporter on a series of articles in the Los Angeles Times titled “The Troubles at King/Drew" hospital that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for public service in 2005. Her ProPublica series, with Charles Ornstein, "When Caregivers Harm: California's Unwatched Nurses" was a finalist for a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Weber reported for the Los Angeles Times from 1994 to 1999 and again beginning in 2003. Previous to her prize-winning collaborations with Ornstein, Weber spent a year reporting from inside California's juvenile court system, prompting reforms in state law. Earlier in her career she reported for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and the Orange County Register.

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Inept Nurses Free to Work in New Locales

Dec. 27, 2009, 9:04 a.m.

Dozens of Criminal Registered Nurses Identified by California Regulators

Dec. 26, 2009, 2:10 a.m.

Fingerprint checks of thousands of California nurses not previously subject to background checks have turned up dozens of convictions of crimes ranging from petty theft to murder. The checks are now required in part because of investigations by ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times.

Calif. Registered Nursing Board Follows Up on Our Nurses Stories

Dec. 26, 2009, 1 a.m.

The California Board of Registered Nursing has taken actions against nurses featured in a series of stories by ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times. Among the actions were revocations and suspensions of licenses.

A ‘Crazy’ Way for an Industry to Operate

Dec. 5, 2009, 9:06 a.m.

Temp Firms a Magnet for Unfit Nurses

Dec. 5, 2009, 7:52 a.m.

California Adopts Stricter Rules for Drug Abusers in the Health Industry

Nov. 20, 2009, 8:47 a.m.

Addressing concerns about health workers who abuse drugs, often stealing hem from patients, California will now require nurses, dentists and other health workers in state-run recovery programs to take at least 104 drug tests in their first year, and a single positive test will remove a worker, at least temporarily.