Sacha Pfeiffer
| Sacha Pfeiffer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 7, 1971 Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| Occupation | Newspaper reporter, former public radio reporter |
| Spouse(s) | Hansi Kalkofen |
| Awards |
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting Investigative Reporters and Editors Award Edward R. Murrow Award |
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Investigative Reporters and Editors Award
Sacha Pfeiffer (born September 7, 1971) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and radio host. She is known for her work with the Spotlight team run by The Boston Globe. She was a member of the group of reporters that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003 for their work in exposing the Roman Catholic church's cover-up of clergy sex abuse.
Pfeiffer was born in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Janet (née Preskenis) and Richard Pfeiffer. She has a younger sister, Sonya, and a younger brother, Seth. Her father, a former state senator, is currently the city attorney for Columbus, Ohio, and her mother is a retired teacher. Her mother is of Lithuanian descent. Her grandmother was Alice Preskenis, a devout Catholic, and a lifelong resident of South Boston who spent forty years working at Pober's Clothing Store, and specialized in dressing children. Her uncle was Ken Preskenis, a well-known figure in South Boston through his involvement in community outreach.
She left Ohio for college, moving to Boston. She graduated with a B.A. and M.A. from Boston University. In 2005, she was named a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She started her journalism career at the Dedham Times in Dedham, Massachusetts. Pfeiffer originally joined the Boston Globe as a reporter in 1995, left in 2008 to work for WBUR-FM in Boston and NPR, returning to the Boston Globe in 2014. During her nearly seven years in public radio, Pfeiffer was a local host of All Things Considered and Radio Boston at WBUR, as well as a guest host of NPR's nationally syndicated On Point and Here & Now. Her on-air work received a National Edward R. Murrow Award for broadcast reporting, as well as numerous other awards.
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