Margot Williams

Margot Williams
Margot Williams
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	journalist, research librarian, dancer, actress
Known for	member of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002

Margot Williams is a journalist and research librarian, who was part of teams at the Washington Post that won two Pulitzer Prizes.^[1]^[2] In 1998, she was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Gold Medal for public service for reporting on the high rate of police shootings in Washington, D.C.^[3] In 2002, she was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its coverage of the war on terror.^[4]

^ Umansky, Eric (January 15, 2009). "Gitmo Database Details 779 Prisoners' Cases". Propublica. Archived from the original on January 22, 2009. Retrieved April 11, 2022. We found the project so interesting that we decided to ring Margot Williams, the Times' database research editor, who has spearheaded the effort. Margot has been involved in breaking Gitmo stories for years. In fact, she's such a junkie, she said she put a recording of KSM's confession [8] on her cellphone.
^ Forrest Glenn Spencer (September 2009). "10 questions: Margot Williams: a 24-hour news cycle and competition from other news outlets keep Margot Williams busy helping reporters at the New York Times meet the paper's high standards for accuracy and thoroughness". Information Outlook. Retrieved 2010-06-07. I was also on a team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting of the war on terrorism. In this effort, I was a member of a team that included Bob Woodward. I have to say that every prize that I have ever been involved with has been a team project, so it's not like the Pulitzer Prize is in my name. In order to get recognized, you have to have your name on the story somehow when it appears in print. In all my years in news librarianship, we'd have to fight to get credit on a story. That's the first step, and that's how it came about that researchers became part of Pulitzer Prize-winning teams.
^ "Examples of Top News Research Efforts". UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communications. February 2007. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
^ Woodman, Spencer (June 12, 2018). "'Analyze the footnotes': Why US reporter Margot Williams starts at the end". International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Retrieved April 11, 2022.

[Propublica-2010-01-15-1] Umansky, Eric (January 15, 2009). "Gitmo Database Details 779 Prisoners' Cases". Propublica. Archived from the original on January 22, 2009. Retrieved April 11, 2022. We found the project so interesting that we decided to ring Margot Williams, the Times' database research editor, who has spearheaded the effort. Margot has been involved in breaking Gitmo stories for years. In fact, she's such a junkie, she said she put a recording of KSM's confession [8] on her cellphone.

[MargotWilliamsAnswersTenQuestions-2] Forrest Glenn Spencer (September 2009). "10 questions: Margot Williams: a 24-hour news cycle and competition from other news outlets keep Margot Williams busy helping reporters at the New York Times meet the paper's high standards for accuracy and thoroughness". Information Outlook. Retrieved 2010-06-07. I was also on a team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting of the war on terrorism. In this effort, I was a member of a team that included Bob Woodward. I have to say that every prize that I have ever been involved with has been a team project, so it's not like the Pulitzer Prize is in my name. In order to get recognized, you have to have your name on the story somehow when it appears in print. In all my years in news librarianship, we'd have to fight to get credit on a story. That's the first step, and that's how it came about that researchers became part of Pulitzer Prize-winning teams.

[examples-3] "Examples of Top News Research Efforts". UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communications. February 2007. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved April 11, 2022.

[4] Woodman, Spencer (June 12, 2018). "'Analyze the footnotes': Why US reporter Margot Williams starts at the end". International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Retrieved April 11, 2022.

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