India, May 16 -- Just over a decade after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Statistics & Data Science(opens in new window), Nick Thieme (DC 2013) has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting.

Thieme, along with former colleagues at The Baltimore Banner Alissa Zhu and Jessica Gallagher, published a "compassionate investigative series that captured the breathtaking dimensions of Baltimore's fentanyl crisis and its disproportionate impact on older Black men, creating a sophisticated statistical model that The Banner shared with other newsrooms," according to the Pulitzer Prize announcement(opens in new window). The series was also published by the New York Times as part of the newspaper's Local Investigatio...