NPC Board Member Alison Fitzgerald Wins Polk Award

Alison Fitzgerald, a newly elected member of the National Press Club Board of Governors, was part of a team selected this week to win the George Polk Award for Business Reporting.

Fitzgerald and her colleagues from The Center for Public Integrity won for their three-part series “After the Meltdown." The judges said the series showed regulators and prosecutors failed to hold a single major player on Wall Street accountable for the reckless behavior that sparked the 2008 financial crisis, allowing them to live lavishly in its aftermath and permitting some to resume the sort of investment activity that plunged the nation into a deep and debilitating recession."

"The Polk award is one of the greatest honors in journalism and I'm thrilled that the work of me and the team at the Center for Public Integrity had been recognized," Fitzgerald said. "The lack of accountability for the misdeeds that led to the financial crisis is an unfortunate chapter in our history."

Fitzgerald was chairwoman of the Club's Speakers Committee for the past two years and oversees financial investigations at the Center for Public Integrity. She was previously a reporter for Bloomberg News and is the author of "In Too Deep" about the BP oil spill. The other members of the team on the award-winning project were Daniel Wagner, Lauren Kyger and John Dunbar.