Awards & Honors

Flanked by reporting partners Michael O'Neal (L) and Patricia Callahan (R), Maurice reacts to news of their Pulitzer win in the Tribune newsroom, April 2008.

• 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
• 2008 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism
• 2008 George Polk Award for Consumer Reporting
• 2007 Thurgood Marshall Award from the Death Penalty Information Center
• 2007 Pulitzer Finalist for National Reporting
• 2005 Thurgood Marshall Award from the Death Penalty Information Center
• 2005 Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association
• 2005 Champions of Justice Award from the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
• 2004 Thurgood Marshall Award from the Death Penalty Information Center
• 2003 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award from Colby College
• 2003 Honorary Juris Doctor from Colby College
• 2001 Pulitzer Finalist for National Reporting
• 2001 Worth Bingham Prize
• 2001 Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) certificate
• 2000 Champion of Justice Award from the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
• 2000 Goldsmith Finalist from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
• 2000 Pulitzer Finalist for Public Service
• 2000 Scripps Howard Award for Public Service