SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake Tribune has won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for a series of stories on Mormon-owned Brigham Young University’s practice of opening honor code investigations into students who reported they were victims of sexual assault.
The Utah newspaper won Monday for the series that prompted BYU to revise its policies and stop investigating student victims.
The school’s strict honor code includes bans on drinking and premarital sex
One of the winning reporters Erin Alberty called the series a team effort and says she hopes that the award shows that journalism stands behind the stories of victims of sex assault crimes.