Amy Pyle

{{Like resume|date=October 2023}} '''Amy Pyle''' is an American journalist and media executive. She has worked for a number of high-profile organizations, including ''USA TODAY'' as Managing Editor of Investigations & Storytelling, ''The Center for Investigative Reporting'' as Editor-in-Chief, ''The Sacramento Bee'' as Assistant Managing Editor/Projects & Investigations, the ''Los Angeles Times'' as Assistant City Editor.

She contributed to two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, and has overseen teams that have earned Pulitzer finalist nominations, a George Foster Peabody award, and a George Polk award among many others.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Pulitzer Prize Foundation |date=October 13, 2023 |title=Finalist: Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/amy-julia-harris-and-shoshana-walter-reveal-center-investigative-reporting }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=CUNY.edu |title=2017 Fellows |url=https://ravitch.journalism.cuny.edu/reportersfellows/2017-fellows/ |access-date=2023-10-13 |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Early life and education == Pyle got a BA in French from Mills College and a master's degree in journalism at Northwestern University.

According her alma mater, Pyle says "The chance to study at an historic women’s college also provided an advantage.... 'You can’t undervalue the strength of being at an institution where the editor of the paper is always a woman and the president is always a woman,' Pyle says. 'It was empowering.'"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Quarterly |first=Mills |date=2022-03-31 |title=The Write Stuff |url=https://quarterly.mills.edu/the-write-stuff-2/ |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=Mills Quarterly |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Career ==

In 2018, the California News Publishers Association reported that "Amy Pyle, editor in chief at The Center for Investigative Reporting in Emeryville, joins Gannett's USA Today Network as head of investigations."<ref>{{Cite web |last=simon@cnpa.com |date=2018-08-28 |title=Amy Pyle to head USA Today investigations |url=https://cnpa.com/amy-pyle-to-head-usa-today-investigations/ |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=CNPA |language=en-US}}</ref> They noted that Pyle had previously been with the CIR since 2012.

Under her leadership at the CIR, reporters Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter<ref name=":0" /> were named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in the national reporting category today for their investigation into forced labor at drug rehabilitation centers.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=staff |first=Reveal |date=2018-04-16 |title=Reveal project All Work. No Pay. named a Pulitzer finalist |url=http://revealnews.org/article/revealcir-project-all-work-no-pay-named-pulitzer-finalist/ |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=Reveal |language=en-US}}</ref>

Of the Pulitzer nomination, Pyle said "We're so proud of Amy Julia and Shoshana; they've worked tirelessly on this story and they're not done."<ref name=":2" />

Likewise, Stanford University's Journalism Program noted that "under her editorial leadership, the organization has won a George Foster Peabody award for its investigation into opiate prescriptions by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. That work has also prompted Congressional hearings."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Journalism |first=Stanford |date=2017-10-24 |title=Reveal's Amy Pyle on changing the world through journalism |url=https://medium.com/@StanfordJournalism/reveals-amy-pyle-on-changing-the-world-through-journalism-78c4bdcce4ec |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=Medium |language=en}}</ref>

They also noted that Pyle, "along with the LA Times staff, won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for spot news writing for coverage of the earthquake that rocked the city in the previous year."<ref name=":3" />

During her career as a media executive Pyle has spoken at a variety of institutions. Occidental College wrote up some of her views on journalism, which she shared at a 2017 panel with Ewin Chemerinsky and Salam Al-Marayati:<blockquote> Mainstream journalists constantly wrestle not only with how to define objective journalism, but what their First Amendment rights are as individuals and what that means for their reporting, Pyle said.

Mere balance in news coverage is not the goal, Pyle said."I don’t think talking heads, one on each side, gets us very far." Objective journalism is fact-based, and journalists should not be advocates, but strive to maintain neutrality. "I talked a lot about this with the newspaper [the student-run Occidental Weekly] today. Campus journalists are feeling their way through this issue, that sometimes you wear two hats, protestor and journalist. I believe you can’t wear both at the same time."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-02-09 |title=First Amendment Issues Explored at Occidental |url=https://www.oxy.edu/news/first-amendment-issues-explored-occidental |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=www.oxy.edu |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>

== Awards and honors ==

* Contributor to two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams.<ref name=":3" /> * Has overseen teams which have earned Pulitzer finalist nominations, a George Foster Peabody award, and a George Polk award.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

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