Four-time Pulitzer winner Freedberg, laid off at Bloomberg, joins Scripps

Four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sydney Freedberg has joined the Washington bureau of The E.W. Scripps Co. as an investigative reporter.

Freedberg joins the bureau from Bloomberg, where she worked on the projects and investigative team. She also has worked for the St. Petersburg Times, the Miami Herald, The Wall Street Journal and the Detroit News. She was one of the journalists laid off by Bloomberg last year.

Her work includes investigations that exposed crime on Wall Street, health care fraud, corruption of public officials, and rigged elections. She is known for her ability to take on tough subjects and write stories of significant impact. At the Herald, she worked on teams that won three Pulitzer Prizes, and she co-authored a series that earned a Pulitzer for public service at the Detroit News.

“Sydney has a strong track record of exposing injustices that otherwise may have remained hidden from public view,” says Ellen Weiss, vice president and Washington bureau chief for Scripps, in a statement. “She is one of the nation’s top investigative journalists and a fantastic addition to our national investigative team.”

In the past year, Scripps has also hired Marcia Myers, former Bloomberg News reporter, as the senior investigations editor.