data reporter. Winner of @PulitzerPrizes 🏆RARELY CHECK, pls follow @sophiechou on bsky 🦋 Past: @propublica @TheWorld @pewresearch @medialab @Columbia.
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1/ I’m honored to share that I’m officially a Pulitzer Prize winner 🥹
Our series on Connecticut’s unscrupulous towing laws, in partnership with @CTMirror, won the 2026 @PulitzerPrizes in Local Reporting.
Pablo’s brother made me take this pic, congrats @PabloTorre fam on your @PulitzerPrizes award!!
Crazy to come back to @Columbia 12 years after graduation, sitting on Low steps at the end of a long night, heels off for @PulitzerPrizes (verdict: Low steps still hits)
nasw.org/2026ScienceinSociet… “Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared,” won the 2026 @sciencewriters.org Science in Society Journalism Award! I'll be in Corvallis, Oregon this weekend at the Science Writers conference to accept the award! If you're going, give me a shout out!
This huge cable that’s a safety hazard has been lying across our front lawn since the storm hit NJ on the Fourth of July. @OptimumHelp refusing to send a crew to remove till 7/20 I fear for our safety does anyone know how to expedite the process?
Purely unscientific survey: If you are a NJ/NYC commuter, take the @NJTRANSIT regularly, or work in the Meadowlands, how do you plan to get to work during the World Cup? I’m especially interested in hearing from people who don’t have the option of working from home!
Sophie Chou retweeted
Sophie was my (much smarter) partner in a class I audited at MIT when she was in grad school. Kind to a much older student and talented as the day is long. I'm not surprised - now someone should snap her up!
1/ I’m honored to share that I’m officially a Pulitzer Prize winner 🥹
Our series on Connecticut’s unscrupulous towing laws, in partnership with @CTMirror, won the 2026 @PulitzerPrizes in Local Reporting.
3/ It’s hard to describe what this win means. This industry can be tough on POC and other minorities. It feels surreal to share this with Haru Coryne. We’re the kind of people I wish I saw winning awards growing up.
4/ I’m no longer at ProPublica and am looking for what’s next — open to journalism, data science, or research/consulting roles (NYC/hybrid/remote).
prioritizing good management + fair pay.
full series: ctmirror.org/series/on-the-h…
Sophie Chou retweeted
SO PROUD of @mpetitchou, an amazing data reporter, more importantly a wonderful person, for her @PulitzerPrizes win in local reporting about Connecticut’s towing laws favoring unscrupulous companies. Also named is former ProPublica reporter @Harucoryne 🎉
pulitzer.org/winners/dave-al…
So proud to be a @PulitzerPrizes winner along with my good friends Haru & @GinnyMonk. We all worked on this data together!
JUST IN: ProPublica and @CTMirror’s “On the Hook” series, which exposed how Connecticut laws had come to favor towing companies at the expense of low-income residents, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.
It’s ProPublica’s ninth Pulitzer Prize.
ALT The Pulitzer Prizes Local Reporting Winner: Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror and Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublica. Image (right) displays an illustration of a white tow truck and a headline that reads: Gone in 15 days: How the Connecticut DMV allows tow companies to sell people's cars.
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Congratulations to @propublica
for earning second place. “Life of a Mother” examines the impact of a Texas state abortion ban on pregnancy loss in the first or second trimester.
By: @mpetitchou , @lizziepresser , @asuozzo and @Ksurana6
The latest data story in our (now Pulitzer-winning) series, Life of Mother. Another stark sepsis finding in Texas
Under Texas’ abortion ban, the rate of sepsis shot up by more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost a second-trimester pregnancy.
Our new analysis shows the risk varies widely between the state’s two largest metro areas.
propublica.org/article/texas…
Congrats on our amazing team! It’s a privilege to work with you all
JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: propublica.org/series/life-o…
ALT Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.
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NEW: Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propublica.org/article/texas…
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
propublica.org/article/texas…
