Their groundbreaking alliance netted them and their news organizations a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. But that doesn’t mean they always worked together seamlessly.

In this edition of the Chicago Public Square / Rivet360 podcast, Chicago Media Talks, meet Madison Hopkins and Cecilia Reyes, praised by Pulitzer judges

for “a piercing examination of the city’s long history of failed building- and fire-safety code enforcement, which let scofflaw landlords

commit serious violations that resulted in dozens of unnecessary

deaths.” (Recorded June 13, 2022.)
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(Photos, counter-clockwise from right: Reyes, Hopkins, hosts Charlie Meyerson and Sheila Solomon.)