2000s Alumni
Michael LaForgia ’02
Michael LaForgia has been a part of two teams to win a Pulitzer Prize. He won the Pulitzer award for local reporting. Combining data and powerful narrative accounts, the reporters detailed how the Pinellas County School Board’s 2007 decision to abandon integration followed by years of neglect turned five once-average St. Petersburg schools into some of the worst in the state of Florida. LaForgia also was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for stories that exposed a government agency’s inhumane treatment of Hillsborough County’s homeless population.