Sydney P. Freedberg
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Sydney P. Freedberg is an American journalist. She has been on the winning team for Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting three times.
Freedberg received a Bachelor’s in History and Literature (cum laude) from Harvard University. During her time there she was Associate Managing Editor of the Harvard Crimson. She was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University.
Career
Freedberg has worked with a number of prominent news organizations, most recently as a reporter with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.[1] Others include: The Miami Herald, The Detroit News, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, the St. Petersburg Times and the Washington Bureau of The E.W. Scripps Company.[2]
In 1994, Freedberg wrote ‘Brother Love: Murder, Money and a Messiah,’ based on her investigation of a self-proclaimed preacher who used his position to control his congregation and even convinced them to commit murder for him. It was published by the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy on July 23, 2013.[citation needed]
In 2006, Freedberg (along with Ronald Henkoff, Jeff Harrington and Connie Humbug) received the Lawrence Minard Editor Award by the UCLA Anderson School of Management in the Beat Writing Category for ‘Risky Business.’[3]
As a reporter with ICIJ in 2018, Freedberg was part of the team behind an award-winning “Implant Files,” a global investigation into the lax regulation of medical devices. In particular, she co-authored an investigation into the business practices of Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device manufacturer.[4][5]