Angela Hill

Faculty facts

First name

Angela

Last name

Hill

Academic title and academic unit

Web Directory link

https://search.asu.edu/profile/5036914

Award details

Highly prestigious awards

Pulitzer Prize National Reporting 2024

Faculty spotlight

Spotlight title

Pulitzer Prize winner

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Angela Hill

Bio summary

Hill won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism, which examined the impact of the AR-15 in the United States and its involvement in mass shootings.

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Angela Hill

Bio

Hill is the Ida B. Wells Professor in Journalism in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She joined ASU in 2024 and works with Cronkite News, Carnegie-Knight News21 and the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism. Hill has also been tasked by Cronkite with fostering collaborations with other journalism and communications schools and assisting in graduate student recruitment. Hill was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for the Washington Post investigative series “American Icon.” As senior video producer at The Post, Hill was one of more than 60 journalists who embarked on a seven-month investigation, which examines the impact and increased popularity of the AR-15 in the United States and its involvement in mass shootings. She has received numerous awards for her work, including multiple Emmys and Peabodys, a George Polk, an Edward R. Murrow and the Robert F. Kennedy Grand Prize.