Lane DeGregory

Lane Thomasson DeGregory (Col ’89, Grad ’95) received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism for her narrative feature, “A Girl in the Window”, cited as a “moving, richly detailed story of a neglected little girl, found in a roach-infested room, unable to talk or feed herself, who was adopted by a new family committed to her nurturing.” A former editor-in-chief of The Cavalier Daily, Ms. DeGregory has been a staff writer for the St. Petersburg Times since 2000. Her stories have appeared in the Best Newspaper Writing editions of 2000, 2004 and 2006. She has been a speaker at the Nieman Narrative Conference at Harvard and has received more than a dozen national awards, including the 2008 American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for non-deadline writing and the 2007 Ernie Pyle Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation for human-interest writing.