Posted May 9, 2023 12:31 PM ET
Connie Walker, a Cree journalist from the Okanese First Nation in Saskatchewan, is seen in an undated handout photo. Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting for the Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s podcast, an investigation into her father’s abuse at a boarding school. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO – Connie Walker
Canadian journalist Connie Walker has won the Pulitzer Prize.
She won the Audio Reporting Award for the Gimlet Media podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s, an investigation into her father’s abuse at a boarding school.
Walker, who is from the Okanese First Nation of Saskatchewan, tracked down priests at St. Michael’s Indian Residential School in Duck Lake, Sask. and spoke to survivors, including their aunts and uncles, about what happened decades ago.
The Pulitzer citation describes the podcast as “a personal search for answers expertly blended with rigorous investigative reporting.”
Walker, a former CBC journalist, said in a tweet that the win left her “speechless and shocked.”
The show, which is a Spotify Original, was also nominated for a Peabody Award for Best Podcast.
This report from The Canadian Press was first published on May 9, 2023.
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