Amy Ellis Nutt, reporter, Newark Star-Ledger. She won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2011 for “The Wreck of the Lady Mary,” an investigative series about the deadly sinking of an East Coast scallop boat. She was a finalist in 2008 for “The Accidental Artist,” about a man’s creative transformation following a traumatic brain injury. The story became the basis for her book Shadows Bright as Glass. Last year, she sat on the feature writing jury for the Pulitzers. A longtime reporter at the Newark Star-Ledger, she’s also an adjunct professor in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
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