Andrew Schneider (journalist)

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Andrew Schneider
Investigative reporter
Known for2-time Pulitzer Prize recipient (1986, 1987)
Spouse(s)Carol Schneider (divorced)
Kathy Best
Children2

Andrew Jay Schneider (November 13, 1942 – February 17, 2017) was an American

Specialized Reporting in 1986 with Mary Pat Flaherty, and another for Public Service with Matthew Brelis and the Press in 1987.[1][2] Schneider also co-authored a book about an asbestos contamination incident in Libby, Montana
, entitled "An Air That Kills".

Personal life and family

Schneider was born to Jack and Fran Schneider in New York City on November 13, 1942. His parents were employed at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, where father Jack worked as a chef and maître d'hôtel and mother Fran worked as a waitress; Schneider would spend most of his childhood in Miami.[3]

Schneider married his first wife Carol, whom he later divorced.

Salt Lake City, Utah.[3]

Career

Early work and Pittsburgh Press

Schneider attended the University of Maryland and University of Miami,[5] researching technological hazards in graduate school.[2] He entered journalism as a freelance photographer, covering the Vietnam War for Life, Newsweek and Time.[3] Early in his career, Schneider worked for weekly newspapers in suburban Washington, D.C. and for the Associated Press in Concord, New Hampshire.[5][6]

He arrived at the

kidney transplant system and its abuse by wealthy foreign nationals, who bypassed the long wait lists.[5][8]

The following year, the Press's investigation into the

airline pilots for debilitating and potentially fatal medical conditions, including alcohol and drug issues, allowing them to continue operating aircraft, according to Schneider.[3][10] The investigation led to "significant reforms" by the FAA, including the firing and replacement of Austin.[2][9]

In 1990, he and Lee Bowman of the Press won the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for a series on Red Cross disaster aid.[11]

Scripps-Howard and Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Schneider left the Press in 1991, shortly before the newspaper was bought by the rival

Scripps-Howard Newspapers bureau in Washington D.C. as a reporter and assistant managing editor for investigations.[2][12] While assigned to a medical story in Haiti in 1994, Schneider elected to stay behind during a U.S. military intervention to cover the overthrow of the Haitian military government.[2][13]

In 1997, Schneider left Scripps-Howard to join

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno to say she might reconsider her decision that "there was no evidence of prosecutable federal civil rights violations."[15] Nat Hentoff of The Village Voice argued that the investigation "deserve[d] to win the Pulitzer Prize."[17]

In 1999, Schneider began investigating

Environmental Protection Agency launched an investigation into the Libby mine after the release of the story, and later established a Superfund cleanup site in Libby, declaring in 2009 that the town was under a public health emergency.[21][22][23]

St. Louis and Baltimore

Schneider continued his reporting on asbestos after leaving the P-I for the

e-book in 2016, An Air That Still Kills, updating their findings on Libby after the EPA declared the city "safe to live in".[27][28]

Schneider left the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 2005, arriving at

ConAgra.[30][31]

Online media and Montana

Schneider returned to the P-I in 2007, where he stayed on as a health and food reporter with the "Secret Ingredients" column, continuing to cover the Libby asbestos case until the newspaper ceased publication in 2009.

AOL News to cover the health risks of nanotechnology in consumer products, as well as seafood safety in the midst of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[33][34] Schneider later wrote an investigative series on tainted honey shipments from China for Food Safety News and founded the blog Coldtruth.com.[2][35][36] At the time of his death in 2017, Schneider worked part-time for Lee Montana Newspapers as a public health reporter.[35] Schneider also co-founded the National Institute for Advanced Reporting at Indiana University in 1990 and served as its first chair.[37]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Goldman, John J. (April 17, 1987). "3 for Philadelphia Inquirer: Times Wins 2 Pulitzers for Foreign Reports, Criticism". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Daly, Jill (February 19, 2017). "Obituary: Andrew Jay Schneider / Investigative reporter won 2 Pulitzer Prizes in Pittsburgh". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f McCumber, David (February 18, 2017). "Two-Time Pulitzer Winner Schneider Dies at 74". The Montana Standard. Butte, MT. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  4. ^ "Seattle Times Editor Kathy Best Named Next Missoulian Newsroom Leader". Missoulian. May 25, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d "Winners of Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters and the Arts". The New York Times. April 18, 1986. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  6. ^ "Winners of Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters and the Arts". The New York Times. April 17, 1987. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  7. Newspapers.com
    .
  8. ^ "Pulitzer-Winning Pittsburgh Press Story on Kidney Transplantation". Photo Archives of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. September 5, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  9. ^ a b Leonard, Vince (April 17, 1987). "Double Honors: Press Wins Its Second Straight Pulitzer Prize". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 5. Retrieved March 4, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Schneider, Andrew; Brelis, Matthew (November 18, 1986). "FAA Hits Air Surgeon's Idea of Mended Pilots". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  11. ^ "Journalism Awards Announced". The Washington Post. April 28, 1991. Retrieved December 31, 2023.
  12. ^ Corcoran, Katherine (November 1991). "Pitfalls". American Journalism Review. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  13. ^ Gersh Hernandez, Debra (September 24, 1994). "Press Pool Was Ready to Go". Editor & Publisher. 127 (39). Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  14. ^ "Journalists Win SPJ Awards". The Seattle Times. May 18, 1997. p. B2. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  15. ^ a b c "Reno to Review Wenatchee Child-Sex Investigations". Kitsap Sun. Bremerton, WA. Associated Press. March 6, 1998. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  16. ^ Hentoff, Nat (April 21, 1998). "A Town Possessed by Satan". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  17. ^ a b c Schneider, Andrew (November 18, 1999). "A Town Left to Die". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Archived from the original on February 6, 2004. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  18. ^ Schneider, Andrew (February 7, 2005). "W.R. Grace Indicted in Libby Asbestos Deaths". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved February 19, 2017 – via Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  19. ^ Juskalian, Russ (July 10, 2009). "Grace-ful Coverage". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  20. ^ a b "Audio Interview: Breaking the Story". POV: Libby, Montana. PBS. 2007. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  21. ^ Schneider, Andrew (April 27, 2000). "Grace Backs Off Pledge to Clean Up Asbestos". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Archived from the original on February 6, 2004. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  22. ^ Fahrenthold, David A. (June 18, 2009). "EPA to Pay Health Bills for People Sickened by Asbestos from Montana Mine". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  23. ^ Stranahan, Susan Q. (February 8, 2005). "Relentless Reporting, Year After Year After Year". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  24. ^ Clifford, Frank (April 25, 2004). "Death in the Air". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  25. ^ Hale, Mike (August 28, 2007). "Asbestos, Hidden in Plain Sight". The New York Times. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  26. PRWeb
    .
  27. ^ "Book on Libby Asbestos Wins National Ebook Award". The Missoulian. October 7, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  28. ^ "Nightline: Killer in Town". Vanderbilt Television News Archive. Vanderbilt University. November 4, 2005. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  29. ^ a b c Schneider, Andrew (December 20, 2007). "Flavoring Additive Puts Professional Cooks at Risk". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  30. ^ "ConAgra to Drop Popcorn Chemical Linked to Lung Ailment". USA Today. Associated Press. September 5, 2007. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  31. ^ "Secret Ingredients". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Archived from the original on March 26, 2009. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  32. AOL News. March 24, 2010. Archived from the original
    on November 24, 2010. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  33. ^ Schneider, Andrew (June 29, 2010). "Who's Making Sure Gulf Seafood Safe to Eat?". The Seattle Times. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  34. ^
    Marler, Bill (February 19, 2017). "Andrew Schneider, Great Journalist and Great Guy, Passes". Food Safety News
    . Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  35. ^ Philpott, Tom (November 7, 2011). "Honey Laundering". Mother Jones. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  36. ^ "Pulitzer Prize Journalist Andrew Schneider Announced as Keynote Speaker at the International Asbestos Awareness Conference on March 28 in Manhattan Beach, CA" (PDF) (Press release). Redondo Beach, California: Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization. March 2, 2009. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
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