Debbie Cenziper is an American investigative journalist for The Washington Post.
She worked as an investigative reporter for the Miami Herald, for The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, and for the Florida Sun Sentinel. In 2007, While working for The Miami Herald, she was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for a series of articles exposing corruption and waste in the Miami-Dade Housing Agency.

She grew up in Philadelphia.
She graduated from the University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

, in 1992.

Awards

• 2009 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
  Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
  The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting is an award for journalists administered by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. The program was launched in 1991, with the goal of exposing examples of poor government, and encouraging good...
  
  
• 2008 Heywood Broun Award
• 2007 Gold Medal for Public Service, Florida Society of Newspaper Editors
• 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
  Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
  The Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting is awarded to an example of "local reporting that illuminates significant issues or concerns." This Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1948. Like most Pulitzers the winner receives a $10,000 award.-History:...
  
  
• 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
  Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
  The Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting has been presented since 1998, for a distinguished example of explanatory reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject, demonstrating mastery of the subject, lucid writing and clear presentation...
  
   finalist
• 2006 George Polk Award
• 2000 Outstanding Media Award: Investigative Reporting, NAMI
• 1999 National Awards for Education Reporting

External links

• "House of Lies", Miami Herald